Seminar: Asian American Literature – Readings and Criticism - Details

Seminar: Asian American Literature – Readings and Criticism - Details

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Course name Seminar: Asian American Literature – Readings and Criticism
Subtitle
Course number 7.110109
Semester WiSe 2020/21
Current number of participants 21
maximum number of participants 25
Entries on waiting list 2
Home institute Anglistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 19.10.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Type/Form

Rooms and times

No room preference
Monday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Asian American literatures and cultures in the U.S. are as diverse as they are dynamic and continuously evolving. Since the 1970s the development and the visibility of Asian American cultural production and identity has been closely connected to political movements and critical reflection as well as self-reflection, both in regard to the revision of dominant and hegemonic histories of Asian American immigration and assimilation in the U.S. as well as the critical investigation and questioning of (still prevalent) practices of othering and race-ing Asian Americans.
The course will touch upon these issues, while aiming to offer an introduction to Asian American culture and literature in the U.S. in a survey manner, to ultimately encourage students to further explore the rich history and the highly diversified and vibrant contemporary literatures and cultures of Asian Americans in the U.S.

The course will be taught as an Online seminar with a variety of different forms of critical engagement, dialogue, discussion and reflection. Activities will include thematically focused input sessions with general discussions, group presentations and discussions, reading sessions and open discussions.

A schedule will be presented in time before the first session where it will be discussed and agreed upon.
Please follow the announcements and communication on StudIp and stay in contact with the instructor for further questions. Formal requirements will be set in writing for your reference, please stay tuned for all future communication in this and other matters.

A detailed list of materials will also be made available within time before the seminar - all secondary texts will be made accessible through StudIP.
Our main source for primary texts will be:

Jessica Hagedorn Ed.
Charlie Chan is Dead 2. An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction.
New York: Penguin, 2004
(Available through Amazon, also as a Kindle e-book, ca. 5 EUR)

You are encouraged to start reading right away, the way the course is set-up, there will be enough time for you to read all the stories before we will discuss them in the seminar, but you should start reading as soon as the texts are available to you.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "IfAA V1b(1) WS 2020/2021".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 01.09.2019 08:00 to 10.11.2019 23:59.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • The enrolment is possible from 10.09.2020, 08:00 to 08.11.2020, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
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