Module Identifier | ENM3320 | ||
Module Title | ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL MEMORY | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Martin Padget | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Other staff | Dr Martin Padget | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours pers week | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 5,000 word essay |
1. Introduction: What is "Ethnic" American Literature?
Michael Fischer, "Ethnicity and the Post-Modern Arts of Memeory" in "Writing Cutlture", ed
James Clifford and George Marcus, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986
Lisa Lowe, "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences", in her "Immigrant Acts: On Asian American
Politics", Durham: Duke University Press, 1996
Werner Sollors "Foreword: Theories of American Ethnicity", "Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader", ed. Werner Sollors,
London: Macmillan, 1996
2. Native American Literature
Leslie Marmon Silko, "Ceremony" (1977)
3. Chicana/o Literature
Gloria Anzaldua, "Borderlands/La Frontera" (1987)
Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Martin & Meditations on the South Valley" (1987)
4. Asian American Literature
Maxine Hong Kingston, "The Woman Warrior" (1976)
5. African American Literature
Toni Morrison, "Beloved" (1987)
Secondary Reading
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown and Jerry W Ward, Jr. "Redefining American Literary History". New York: Modern Language Association, 1990
Singh, Amritjit, Joseph T Skerrett and Robert E Hogan. Eds. "Memory, Narrative and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures". Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994