ENGL 371A - Transnational Asian American Literature

Credits: (3)
College Curriculum: COLL 200
Domain (Anchored): ALV
Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
Through the study of fiction and non-fiction texts, this course will examine how the Asian American is constructed transnationally. Variously the model minority, the perpetual foreigner, or the terrorist, how is the Asian American figured in different spatiotemporal contexts? While grappling with this question, the course will also analyze the intersectional constructs of race, gender, class, and sexuality in investigating how Asian Americanness is constituted within and against the concept of the nation.
Cross-listed with: APIA 405