Description
LIT 307 Asian American Literatrue - This class will introduce students to Asian American literature by considering two central questions: what is Asian America, and what makes Asian American literature? In asking these questions, the course approaches Asian American literature not as an unquestioned canon, but as a shifting site of study that emerges in and responds to specific historical conditions. Thus, while rooted in the literary, the course draws from historical, sociological, political, and legal texts in order to contextualize and analyze Asian American cultural production. Exploring both the formation of Asian American identities and the aesthetic forms authors use to represent those identities, this course invites students to examine how authors and scholars have expanded, contested, and reimagined the meaning of Asian American literature across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Prerequisite: ENG 102 "C-" or better