Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
Subjects |
North American Literature through its Texts |
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Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
Subject | North American Literature through its Texts | Code | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
UNIT 1 - Concepts and contexts | 1. Concepts of race and ethnicity 2. Race and ethnicity in the US: a socio-historical introduction 3. Asian American literature: an overview |
UNIT 2 - Theoretical Considerations | 1. Colonialism, postcolonialism, multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism. 2. Linguistic considerations |
UNIT 3 - New Migratory Cartographies | 1. Cultural and Spatial Contexts |
UNIT 4 - Case Studies | 1. Jeanine Cummins, 'American Dirt'. Flatiron, 2020. 2. Julissa Arce, 'My (Underground) American Dream'. Center Street, 2016. 3. Lan Cao, 'The Lotus and the Storm. A novel'. Penguin, 2014. 4. Nami Mun, 'Miles from Nowhere'. Riverhead, 2009. |
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