{"id":27549,"date":"2017-02-03T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=27549"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:22:42","slug":"american-literature-cross-cultural-contact-and-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=27549","title":{"rendered":"American Literature: Cross-Cultural Contact and Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:\u00a0American Literature: Cross-Cultural Contact and Exchange (A, 20)<\/strong><\/span>
\n Instructor:\u00a0Dr. Catherine M. Eagan <\/strong>(Fulbright guest professor)<\/span>
\n ECTS credits:\u00a06<\/span>
\n Language of instruction:\u00a0English<\/span>
\n Semester:\u00a0Summer 2017<\/span>
\n Tue 11:00 \u2013 12:30, A 105<\/span>
\n Thu 11:45 \u2013 12:30, A 105<\/span><\/p>\n

Status:\u00a0elective<\/span>
\n Form of instruction:\u00a0lecture (1 hour) + seminar (2 hours)<\/span>
\n Enrollment requirements: Introduction to the Study of English Literature; enrollment in the 2nd<\/sup> or 3rd<\/sup> year.
\n ______________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> This course will analyze American literature of the late 20th<\/sup> and early 21st<\/sup> century that engages with the idea of cross-cultural contact and exchange. Cultures can meet in productive and destructive ways, but rarely is the division so clear; meetings across cultures are always complex. As a class, we will read literature that reflects on these meetings critically, discussing how authors around the turn of this millennium are reexamining paradigms for cultural connection and conflict that are as old as America itself. The instructor will lecture on and share samples of literature from earlier centuries to review in class, but the readings will be concentrated in contemporary literature. We will spend the first part of the class exploring the questions of how culture will be\/should be\/could be defined for this course: we will have to think about how culture relates to race, ethnicity, class, and religion, how it is shaped by nation and immigration, and how it is often defined by hybridity instead of purity or authenticity. The concepts that will frame our study of cross-racial relationships in American contexts are listed in the week-by-week schedule below: as we move forward, we will be treating each new text with attention to the current and previous framing concepts. In addition, my hope is that we will complete the course with an ability to apply these concepts to current \u201cculture wars\u201d in American, transnational, and perhaps even personal contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:\u00a0Regular attendance; participation in class discussions; in-class and home assignments; continuous evaluation (a mid-term and final, mandatory for all students); seminar paper (5-7 double-spaced pages in 8th<\/sup> edition MLA style). It is essential to observe the deadlines set down for your readings and for particular assignments; if not, this can adversely affect your grade. Grade breakdown: tests (midterm and final)\u201430%; journal responses\u201420%; seminar paper\u201440%; class participation\u201410%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus (subject to change):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1<\/u>: Introductions, First Contact<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 2-3<\/u>: Struggles to Assimilate and Acculturate<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 4-6<\/u>: Cross-Racial Solidarity\u2014Barriers and Possibilities<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 7-9<\/u>: Interracial Love Relationships<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 10-11<\/u>: Mixed-Race and Hybrid Identities<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 12-14<\/u>: White Guilt, Ally-ship, and Multicultural Utopias and Dystopias<\/span><\/p>\n

Novels<\/u>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues<\/em> (1995)<\/span><\/p>\n

Wesley Brown, Darktown Strutters<\/em>, excerpts (1994)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker<\/em> (1995)<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy <\/em>(2005)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mat Johnson, Loving Day <\/em>(2015)<\/span><\/p>\n

Short Stories<\/u>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Junot Diaz, \u201cHow to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie\u201d (1996)<\/span><\/p>\n

Louise Erdrich, \u201cThe Flower\u201d (2015)<\/span><\/p>\n

MeiMei Evans, \u201cGussuk,\u201d (1989)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gish Jen, \u201cIn the American Society\u201d (1986)<\/span><\/p>\n

Marjan Kamali, \u201cThe Gift\u201d (2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas King, \u201cBorders\u201d (1996)<\/span><\/p>\n

Reginald McKnight, \u201cQuitting Smoking\u201d (1991)<\/span><\/p>\n

Bharti Mukherjee, \u201cA Wife\u2019s Story\u201d (1988)<\/span><\/p>\n

Z.Z. Packer, \u201cBrownies\u201d (2003)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Films<\/u>:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Crash. <\/em>Dir. Paul Haggis. Starring Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock (2005)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethnic Notions<\/em>. Dir. Marlon Riggs. California Newsreel (1987)<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary Readings:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Gloria Anzaldua, \u201cLa Conciencia de la mestiza\/Towards a New Consciousness\u201d (1987)<\/span><\/p>\n

George Frederickson, \u201cModels of American Ethnic Relations\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Louise Pratt,\u00a0\u201cArts of the Contact Zone\u201d (1991)<\/span><\/p>\n

Peggy McIntosh, \u201cWhite Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack\u201d (1988)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Course title:\u00a0American Literature: Cross-Cultural Contact and Exchange (A, 20) Instructor:\u00a0Dr. Catherine M. Eagan (Fulbright guest professor) ECTS credits:\u00a06 Language of instruction:\u00a0English Semester:\u00a0Summer 2017 Tue 11:00 \u2013 12:30, A 105 Thu 11:45 \u2013 12:30, A 105 Status:\u00a0elective Form of instruction:\u00a0lecture (1 hour) + seminar (2 hours) Enrollment requirements: Introduction to the Study of English Literature; enrollment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knjizevni-seminari-4-ili-6-semestar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27565,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions\/27565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}