Course details

Name: ENLT - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS: WRITING BY ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will introduce students to key issues in the study of writing by Asian American women. We will consider the particularities of the gendering of Asian Americans as a group and the representational concerns and practices of Asian American women writers. Using a feminist analytic lens, we will address topics such as colonialism and post-colonialism, U.S. wars in Asia, racialized spaces of ethnic enclaves and suburbia, diaspora and transnational social constructs, intergenerational issues, and cultural disruptions and the invention of “tradition,” intersections and race, gender, and sexuality, and gender roles and relations in Asian American communities. Authors studied may include Le Thi Diem Thuy, Aimee Phan, Jessica Hagedorn, Maxine Hong Kingston, Meena Alexander, and Suki Kim, among others.

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
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• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)

Teaching Faculty: Cheng Emily (chenge)

Is course canceled: No