Module Identifier | EN36920 | ||
Module Title | ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Helena Grice | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours Seminar. (10 x 2 hour workshop seminars) | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 x 2,500 word essays | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a range of Asian American writing in its historical and cultural contexts;
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of theories of Asian American cultural production;
- demonstrate an ability to express themselves cleraly in writing and speech.
2: Telling the Gold Mountain Story: Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
3: Chinese American Mother/Daughter Writing: Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club. Extract from Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
4: Japanese American Writing: John Okada, No-No Boy
5: Writing Against Red China: Anchee Min, Red Azalea
6: Filipino American Writing: Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart
7: Korean American Writing: Chang Rae Lee, Native Speaker
8: Hawai'ian American Writing: Kathleen Tyau, A Little Too Much Is Enough
9: South Asian American Writing: Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine
10: Writing Nagasaki: Sui Wai Anderson, 'Autumn Gathering'
Set Texts:
Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (Picador 1982)
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Minerva 1989)
Anchee Min, Red Azalea (Indigo 1996)
John Okada, No-No Boy (University of Washington Press 1972)
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (University of Washington Press 1974)
Chang Rae Lee, Native Speaker (Granta Books 1995)
Kathleen Tyau, A Little Too Much is Enough (The Women's Press 1995)
Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (Virago 1991)
Helena Grice et al, Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (Manchester University Press 2001)