{"id":29691,"date":"2017-09-27T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29691&lang=en"},"modified":"2023-12-04T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:52:13","slug":"contemporary-u-s-ethnic-literatures-201718","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=29691&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (2017\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107 <\/strong> Literary seminar: Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (1st<\/sup>\/2nd<\/sup> Year) (A, 20th<\/sup> c.)
\n<\/strong>Winter 2017\/2018
\nSemester:<\/strong> 1 or 3
\nMon 11-12:30 (A-123)
\nWed 13:15- 14 (A-105)
\nE-mail: jsesnic@ffzg.hr<\/a><\/span>
\nPhone: 01-4092060
\nOffice hours: Mon, 12:30-1:30 pm; Thu, 11-12 am<\/span><\/p>\n

Course description:<\/strong> The course examines a very innovative and dynamic section of contemporary US literary\/cultural production\u2014literature produced by and about different established and newly arisen \u201cethnic communities\u201d with special focus on the 1965 immigration reform, post-Cold War and post-9\/11 developments, respectively. We shall address new modes of representing the ways of belonging, community and citizenship in relation to representative ethnic groups (African American, Native American), while in the second part of the course the attention will be given to the ways new cultural productions (both visual and textual) address concerns felt by more recent or recently more visible ethnic and racial formations (Asian American, Latino\/ Chicano, Arab American, etc.). These textual and visual artefacts make evident some continuing concerns with nation- and community-building in the States, while they depict a new class of national subjects, a new generation of Americans. <\/span><\/p>\n

Requirements: <\/strong>Regular attendance and class participation; in-class and home assignments; seminar paper (10-12 double-spaced pp.); continuous assessment (midterm and final test).<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading \/ viewing list
\nPrimary texts<\/strong>
\nNovels<\/span>
\nGish Jen: Mona in the Promised Land<\/em> (1996)
\nMohja Kahf: Girl in the Tangerine Scarf<\/em> (2006)
\nChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah<\/em> (2013)
\n<\/span>Memoirs
\n<\/span>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me<\/em> (2015)
\n<\/span>Short stories
\n<\/span>Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies<\/em> (1999; selection)
\nJunot D\u00edaz: This Is How You Lose Her<\/em> (2012; selection)
\n<\/span>Films
\n<\/span>Do the Right Thing <\/em>(Spike Lee, 1989); Smoke Signals<\/em> (Chris Eyre, 1998); Lone Star<\/em> (John Sayles, 1996)<\/span><\/p>\n

Readings by weeks and sections (alterations possible)
\nPart I: An overview
\n<\/strong><\/span>Introductory remarks: approaching ethnicity; interdisciplinarity in the study of ethnicity; race theory and ethnicity school; \u201cracial formations\u201d (Omi and Winant); consent and descent (Sollors); symbolic (voluntary) and ascribed (compulsory) ethnicity; American ethnic\/racial pentagon; fantasmatic aspects of racial identifications; long-term ethnic groups\/racial formations: African Americans, American Indians<\/span><\/p>\n

*Entries from Keywords: \u201cCitizenship\u201d, \u201cEthnicity\u201d, \u201cNation\u201d, \u201cNaturalization\u201d, \u201cRace\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

October<\/span>
\nWeek 1: Introduction and key concepts
\nWeek 2: African-American perspective: Do the Right Thing
\n<\/em>Week 3: African-American perspective: Coates, Between the World and Me
\n<\/em>Week 4: Amerindians and postmodernism: Smoke Signals<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Part II: An overview
\n<\/strong>New racial formations; Chicanos and Latinos\/Hispanics; Asian Americans; Arab Americans; post-1965 immigration and globalization; new paradigms of reading ethnic texts: diasporic and borderlands models<\/span><\/p>\n

*The following entries from Keywords<\/em>: \u201cBorder\u201d, \u201cDiaspora\u201d, \u201cImmigration\u201d, \u201cMestizo\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: Chicanos as a sub-nation: Lone Star<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

November<\/span>
\nWeek 1 Latino diaspora: Junot D\u00edaz: selection of short stories
\nWeek 2: Midterm.
\nWeek 3: Asian Americans as perpetual others: Lahiri: selection of short stories
\nWeek 4: Asian Americans: Gish Jen: Mona in the Promised Land<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

December
\n<\/span>Week 1: Gish Jen, cont.
\nWeek 2: Post 9\/11 and Arab Americans: Mohja Kahf: Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
\n<\/em>Week 3: Kahf, cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

January
\n<\/span>Week 1: New African diaspora: Adichie: Americanah
\n<\/em>Week 2: Adichie; cont.
\nWeek 3: Evaluation. Final test.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary readings
\nGeneral introduction:
\n– <\/strong>Appiah, Anthony. The Ethics of Identity. New Haven: Princeton UP, 2007. (selection)
\n– Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler, eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies<\/em>. New York and London: NYUP, 2007.
\n– (Entries: \u201cBorder\u201d, \u201cCitizenship\u201d, \u201cDiaspora\u201d, \u201cEthnicity\u201d, \u201cImmigration\u201d, \u201cMestizo\u201d, \u201cNation\u201d, \u201cNaturalization\u201d, \u201cRace\u201d)
\n– Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formations in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s<\/em>. 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 53-76.
\n– Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture<\/em>. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986. 20-39.<\/p>\n

Additional material for each section will be provided in digital form on the Omega platform.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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