| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | Seminar. 2 hours pers week |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 5,000 word essay Essay: | |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. |
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a detailed knowledge of contemporary ethnic American literature and the critical debates surrounding the literature;
2. employ advanced skills to conduct research and deliver criticism at a consistently high level of engagement;
3. explain and sythesise a diverse body of primary and critical materials in a well-organised essay that demonstrates a mastery of the field of critical inquiry into ethnic American literature;
4. demonstrate an ability to communicate complex ideas in oral discussion of the material studied.
This option analyses a cross-section of "ethnic" or "minority" literature by Native American, African American, Asian American, and Chicana/o writers. Our focus is on the role this literature has played in interrogating questions of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality in post-World War II American culture. Issues and topics addressed include: cultural pluralism, the melting pot and American "identity", ethnic and cultural difference; immigration, displacement, and migratory identities; geographical and metaphorical borderlands; mixed blood and the divided self; ethnic nationalism and cultural suvival; and "whiteness" as a racial and ethnic category.
This module is at CQFW Level 7