{"id":44532,"date":"2023-12-04T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=44532"},"modified":"2025-02-18T17:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:55:45","slug":"contemporary-u-s-ethnic-literatures-2023-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=44532&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107
\n<\/strong><\/span>Literary seminar: Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (MA) (A, 20th<\/sup> c.)
\n<\/strong><\/span>Spring 2025
\n<\/span>Mon 10:15-11:45 a.m. (A-105)
\n<\/span>Wed 1:15- 2 p.m. (A-105)
\n<\/span>E-mail: jsesnic@m.ffzg.hr<\/a>
\n<\/span>Phone: 01-4092060
\n<\/span>Office hours: Mon, 12-1 pm; Thu, 10-11 am (office B-018)<\/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 in which 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, the new African immigration, 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 (10%); written assignments (research paper (6-7 double spaced pp.) and seminar paper (10-12 double-spaced pp.)) (60%); midterm and final test (30%)<\/span><\/p>\n

Primary texts<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Novels\/ graphic novels <\/span><\/p>\n

Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/em> (2017)<\/span><\/p>\n

Louise Erdrich: Tracks<\/em> (1988)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gene Luen Jang: American Born Chinese<\/em> (2006)<\/span><\/p>\n

Short stories<\/span><\/p>\n

Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies<\/em> (1999); Unaccustomed Earth<\/em> (2008) (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Junot D\u00edaz: Drown<\/em> (1996); This Is How You Lose Her<\/em> (2012) (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: short stories; selection<\/span><\/p>\n

Films<\/span><\/p>\n

Do the Right Thing <\/em>(Spike Lee, 1989); Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada<\/em> (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Readings by weeks and sections (alterations possible)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part I: An overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

February\/ March<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Introduction and key concepts <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: African-American perspective: Lee, Do the Right Thing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: African-American perspective: Ward, Sing, Unburied Sing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Ward: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

April<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1 Amerindians: Erdrich: Tracks<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Erdrich: cont.  *Research paper submission. Mon, 7th<\/sup> April.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Part II: An overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

New configurations of ethnicity: Chicanos and Latinos\/Hispanics; Asian Americans; the new African immigration; 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

 <\/p>\n

April<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: *Midterm. Mon, 14th<\/sup> April.*<\/strong> Chicanos as a sub-nation: Jones: Three Burials\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Jones: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: The Latino diaspora: D\u00edaz: selection<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

May<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Asian Americans as perpetual others; Lahiri: selection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Asian Americans: Jang: American Born\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Jang: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: The new African diaspora; Adichie: short stories *Seminar paper submission. Mon, 26th<\/sup> May.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

June<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Course evaluation. *Final test. Mon, 2nd<\/sup> June.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A course reader will be made available on Omega.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107 Literary seminar: Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (MA) (A, 20th c.) Spring 2025 Mon 10:15-11:45 a.m. (A-105) Wed 1:15- 2 p.m. (A-105) E-mail: jsesnic@m.ffzg.hr Phone: 01-4092060 Office hours: Mon, 12-1 pm; Thu, 10-11 am (office B-018) Course description: The course examines a very innovative and dynamic section of contemporary US literary\/cultural production\u2014literature produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-i-10-semestar-knjizevni-kolegiji-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47235,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44532\/revisions\/47235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}