"Extravagant" Texts: Advanced Studies in Asian American Literature

Spring 2010 ENGL 1760P S01

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Instructor: Daniel Kim

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Course Description

We examine Asian American writings that are difficult, complex, and/or experimental: texts that are, in Maxine Hong Kingston's phrase, "extravagant." By looking at works that explicitly challenge the generic conventions with which much Asian American literature is usually linked--autobiography, the Bildungsroman, ethnography, realism, and sentimentalism--we try to arrive at a more expansive sense of what the ends of Asian American cultural politics might be. Enrollment limited.