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ENGL-228-01 Multiethnic Literatures
Multiethnic Literatures
This course will examine the study of comparative ethnicities and race with an emphasis on the construction of American history and culture. Using a cultural studies framework, the class will focus primarily on Asian American, African American, U.S. Latino/a, and Native American literature, photography, music, and film. We will discuss matters of citizenship, color, and otherness; modernity and globalization; canonicity and the culture wars; hybridity, diaspora, and transborder crossing; nation and nationalism; gender and sexuality; and art, politics, media, and popular culture. Writers may include Fae Myenne Ng, Chitra Divakaruni, Don Lee, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Luis Valdez, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Sherman Alexie. We will be watching Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands; Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay!; Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit; Lauren Lazin’s Resurrection (on the life and music of Tupac Shakur); and Lourdes Portillo’s Corpus (on the life and music of Selena Quintanilla-Perez). Requirements will be two short essays, a midterm exam, a class presentation, and a final exam or a final paper.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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