Schedule
Readings marked by * can be found in the course reader.
Fall Term 2005
| 15 Sept. | What
Is Asian North American Literature? *Elaine Kim, Preface, Asian American Literature *Sau-ling Wong, “Constructing an Asian American Textual Coalition,” Reading Asian American Literature |
| 22 Sept. | Frank Chin
and Cultural Nationalism *Frank Chin, “Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy” *Frank Chin et al., eds., Introduction, Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers |
| 29 Sept. | Literature
as Social History Carlos Bulosan, America Is In the Heart |
| 6 Oct. | Bulosan, America Is In the Heart |
| 13 Oct. | The Politics
of Form *Poetry by Allen Ginsberg, Lawson Fusao Inada, Francis Oka, Janice Mirikitani |
| 20 Oct. | The Real
and the Fake: The 1980s Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior |
| 27 Oct. | Paper
1 due Kingston, The Woman Warrior |
| 3 Nov. | Film: The Wedding Banquet, dir. Ang Lee |
| 10 Nov. | Poetry in
the 1980s: Popularity and Pluralism *Poems by Marilyn Chin, Li-Young Lee, and David Mura |
| 17 Nov. | Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan |
| 24 Nov. | Memory and
History I Joy Kogawa, Obasan |
| 1 Dec. | Kogawa, Obasan |
| 8 Dec. | Term Test |
Spring Term 2006
| 12 Jan. | Memory
and History II SKY Lee, Disappearing Moon Café |
| 19 Jan. | Lee, Disappearing Moon Café |
| 26 Jan. | The 1990s:
Hybrids and Heretics Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée |
| 2 Feb. | Cha, Dictée |
| 9 Feb. | The 1990s:
Nationalism and Transnationalism I Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories |
| 16 Feb. | Paper
2 due Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories *Mukherjee, “An Invisible Woman” |
| 23 Feb. | Reading Week: no class |
| 2 March | Hollywood
Asians I Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters |
| 9 March | Hagedorn, Dogeaters |
| 16 March | Hollywood
Asians II John Yau, Borrowed Love Poems |
| 23 March | Film: TBA |
| 30 March | The 1990s:
Nationalism and Transnationalism II Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange |
| 6 April | The 1990s:
Nationalism and Transnationalism II Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange |
| 13 April | Term Test |