TA position open in Department of Asian American Studies for Fall 2018

Course Description

This class serves as an introduction to the larger themes and aesthetic concerns of Asian American literature. By examining a series of texts, we will consider the consistent themes that arise in the works: immigrant and post immigrant subjectivity, Orientalism and representation, gender, race, generational conflict, assimilation, model minority, among other topics. In addition, we will examine how the individual authors question the singularity of an Asian American experience, and how they envision America as a way of defining Asian America. Finally, we will consider how these writers make formal and aesthetic choices, particularly in their use of the ethnic bildungsroman, realism, modernism, postmodernism.