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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| North American Literature through its Texts |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| 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 | 1.1. Concepts of race and ethnicity 1.2. Race and ethnicity in the US: a socio-historical introduction 1.3. New approaches to race and ethnicity |
| UNIT 2 - African American literature | 2.1. Literature of slavery and freedom: slave narratives. 2.2. The vernacular tradition. 2.3. From the literature of Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. 2.4. Protest literature and the Black Arts Movement. 2.5. Womanism and postmodernism. 2.6. African American literature in the 21st century. 2.7. Case Studies: Langston Hugues, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry and Toni Morrison. |
| UNIT 3 - Asian American literature | 3.1. Chinese American literature before WW2: immigration stories. 3.2. Japanese American literature: internment and beyond. 3.3. Asian American literature after WW2: Cultural Nationalism and its discontents. 3.4. “Denationalization Reconsidered”: globalization and diaspora. 3.5. New immigrants and refugees: South Asian literature, Vietnamese American literature, etc. 3.6. African American literature in the 21st century: beyond master narratives. 3.7. Case Studies: Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Karen Tei Yamashita and Viet Thanh Nguyen. |
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