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EAST ASIAN STUDIES (L03)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)FL2015

L03 East Asia 4610Ocean, Island, Ghetto, Globe: The Routes and Horizons of Asian American Literature3.0 Units
Description:Where do Asian Americans belong? This course poses this question in stark terms to highlight how much of a problem it has been for Asian Americans and the U.S. The disparate routes by which Asian migrants came to the U.S. have shaped their histories, identities, and literatures, tying their stories here to a there overseas. Their places here have been ambivalent: embraced as model minorities but also excluded as racial others, foreigners, even potential traitors. Out of this history comes a literature that wrestles with the problem of place and setting. Through this literature, we'll examine how Asian Americans have imagined their horizons of belonging when their places in the nation and world are unclear. We'll consider how different episodes in Asian American history created cultural, emotional, and political investments in specific settings of identity and community. And we'll attend to the tensions among these scales. Our exploration will take us from familiar settings of Asian American literature-Chinatown, the island, the Asia-Pacific-to less familiar ones-regional America, the American hemisphere, the trans-Atlantic, and globalized utopias. As Asian American literature traverses these settings, it raises questions about where and why we draw the boundaries of community, identity, and political responsibility in an increasingly migrant world. Authors include Cathy Song, Frank Chin, Ruth Ozeki, Younghill Kang, and Karen Tei Yamashita. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQHUMArtHUME LitTCENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L14 461  L16 461A  L98 4612Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
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