EN 262 Contemporary Asian American Literature (Spring: 3)

Course examines the flowering of literature by and about Asian Americans produced over the past two decades. It focuses on a number of superstar novelists who have won major literary awards, including Maxine Hong Kingston, Han Ong, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Susan Choi. It also examines less well known authors whose works have pushed readers against the boundaries of how we think about race and creative expression. What factors have contributed to this flowering? What can we gain by reading these authors together? How do they add to, challenge, or redirect the writing of literature in the present? Draft syllabus online.
Min Song

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