Programma

Il corso si concentra sulla discussione, da una prospettiva multietnica e multiculturale, delle questioni storiche, sociali, politiche ed economiche derivanti dalla lettura della selezione letteraria. Speciale attenzione sarà rivolta all’analisi dei testi letterari al fine di comprenderne il rapporto intercorrente con la letteratura americana mainstream e l’identità nazionale degli Stati Uniti d’America.

Questo corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” e “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Open Road Media, 2013 (1992), 24-36, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (estratti).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” e “Caroline’s Wedding”, in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work”, in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino e Justin Vitiello (a cura di) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” e “Interpreter of Maladies”, in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (estratti).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Amend, Allison. “Overview”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 7-16. Amend, Allison. “Sandra Cisneros”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 63-4. Anonymous. “From Island”. In Lin, Shirley Geok-lin. Asian American Literature. An Anthology. Lincolnwood (IL): NTC Publishing Group, 2000. 31-5. Cheung, King-Kok. “Introduction”. In Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ) Rutgers University Press, 2001, IX-XXIII. Chute, Hillary. “Art Spiegelman”. In Lauter, Paul, et al. (Eds.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Seventh Edition. Volume E. Boston: Cengage, 2014, 3765-7. Cisneros, Sandra. “Introduction”. In The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage, 2009. Coulombe, Joseph L. “Following the Tracks. History and Context of Native Writing.” In Reading Native American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2011. 18-35. “Danticat, Edwidge”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 169-71. Davis, Rocio G. “Oral Narrative as Short Story Cycle: Forging Community in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” MELUS, 26, 2, 2001. 65-81. Doherty, Thomas. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust”. American Literature, 68, 1, 1996. 69-84. Gardaphé, Fred. “We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature”. In Literature Interpretation Theory, 13, 2002. 185-99. Gardaphé, Fred L. “Italian American Literature and Culture”. In Hendin, Josephine G. (Ed.) A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 299-322. Giordano, Paolo. “From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American. Joseph Tusiani’s Gente Mia and Other Poems”. In Tusiani, Joseph, Ethnicity. Selected Poems. New York: Bordighera Press, 2012, 73-86. Hatfield, Charles. “Conclusion: Toward the Habit of Questioning”. In Alternative Comics. An Emerging Literature. Jackson (MS): University of Mississippi Press, 2005. 65-7. “Kingston, Maxine Hong”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 284-9. Kim, Elaine H. “Japanese American Family and Community Portraits”. In Asian American Literature. Philadelphia (PA): Temple University Press, 1982. 122-37. “Lahiri, Jhumpa”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 295-7. Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Trading Stories”. The New Yorker, June 13, 2011. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/13/trading-stories Lewis, Simon. “Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’”. In Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2015. 1463-6. Nagel, James. “Sandra Cisneros’s Cuentitos Latinos.” In The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle. The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton Rouge (LA): Louisiana University Press, 2001. 104-27. Otfinoski, Steven. “Sherman Alexie”. In Native American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010, 99-102. Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”. In Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1516-21. Stern, Carlos Simpson. “Yellow Woman”. In Riggs, Thomas (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999, 1110-1. Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition). New York: Back Bay Books, 2008, 3-20, 447-50. Williams, Laura Anh. “Foodways and Subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”. MELUS, 32, 4, 2007. 69-79. Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia. “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxim Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy”. In Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, ed. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 29-53. Altri materiali di studio saranno forniti durante il corso.

Modalità Erogazione

Agli studenti è richiesto di leggere in anticipo i materiali oggetto delle lezioni e di essere preparati a partecipare alle discussioni in classe.

Modalità Frequenza

La frequenza non è obbligatoria ma è fortemente consigliata.

Modalità Valutazione

30% Frequenza e partecipazione 40% Letture a casa e discussione in classe 30% Esame orale finale N.B.: Nel periodo di emergenza COVID-19 l’esame di profitto sarà svolto secondo quanto previsto all’art.1 del Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 del 5 maggio 2020. Pertanto, durante le sessioni estiva e autunnale 2019/2020, gli esami si terranno in via telematica e in forma orale.

Programma

Il corso si concentra sulla discussione, da una prospettiva multietnica e multiculturale, delle questioni storiche, sociali, politiche ed economiche derivanti dalla lettura della selezione letteraria. Speciale attenzione sarà rivolta all’analisi dei testi letterari al fine di comprenderne il rapporto intercorrente con la letteratura americana mainstream e l’identità nazionale degli Stati Uniti d’America.

Questo corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” e “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Open Road Media, 2013 (1992), 24-36, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (estratti).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” e “Caroline’s Wedding”, in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work”, in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino e Justin Vitiello (a cura di) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” e “Interpreter of Maladies”, in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (estratti).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Amend, Allison. “Overview”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 7-16. Amend, Allison. “Sandra Cisneros”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 63-4. Anonymous. “From Island”. In Lin, Shirley Geok-lin. Asian American Literature. An Anthology. Lincolnwood (IL): NTC Publishing Group, 2000. 31-5. Cheung, King-Kok. “Introduction”. In Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ) Rutgers University Press, 2001, IX-XXIII. Chute, Hillary. “Art Spiegelman”. In Lauter, Paul, et al. (Eds.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Seventh Edition. Volume E. Boston: Cengage, 2014, 3765-7. Cisneros, Sandra. “Introduction”. In The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage, 2009. Coulombe, Joseph L. “Following the Tracks. History and Context of Native Writing.” In Reading Native American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2011. 18-35. “Danticat, Edwidge”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 169-71. Davis, Rocio G. “Oral Narrative as Short Story Cycle: Forging Community in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” MELUS, 26, 2, 2001. 65-81. Doherty, Thomas. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust”. American Literature, 68, 1, 1996. 69-84. Gardaphé, Fred. “We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature”. In Literature Interpretation Theory, 13, 2002. 185-99. Gardaphé, Fred L. “Italian American Literature and Culture”. In Hendin, Josephine G. (Ed.) A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 299-322. Giordano, Paolo. “From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American. Joseph Tusiani’s Gente Mia and Other Poems”. In Tusiani, Joseph, Ethnicity. Selected Poems. New York: Bordighera Press, 2012, 73-86. Hatfield, Charles. “Conclusion: Toward the Habit of Questioning”. In Alternative Comics. An Emerging Literature. Jackson (MS): University of Mississippi Press, 2005. 65-7. “Kingston, Maxine Hong”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 284-9. Kim, Elaine H. “Japanese American Family and Community Portraits”. In Asian American Literature. Philadelphia (PA): Temple University Press, 1982. 122-37. “Lahiri, Jhumpa”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 295-7. Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Trading Stories”. The New Yorker, June 13, 2011. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/13/trading-stories Lewis, Simon. “Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’”. In Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2015. 1463-6. Nagel, James. “Sandra Cisneros’s Cuentitos Latinos.” In The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle. The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton Rouge (LA): Louisiana University Press, 2001. 104-27. Otfinoski, Steven. “Sherman Alexie”. In Native American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010, 99-102. Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”. In Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1516-21. Stern, Carlos Simpson. “Yellow Woman”. In Riggs, Thomas (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999, 1110-1. Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition). New York: Back Bay Books, 2008, 3-20, 447-50. Williams, Laura Anh. “Foodways and Subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”. MELUS, 32, 4, 2007. 69-79. Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia. “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxim Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy”. In Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, ed. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 29-53. Altri materiali di studio saranno forniti durante il corso.

Modalità Erogazione

Agli studenti è richiesto di leggere in anticipo i materiali oggetto delle lezioni e di essere preparati a partecipare alle discussioni in classe.

Modalità Frequenza

La frequenza non è obbligatoria ma è fortemente consigliata.

Modalità Valutazione

30% Frequenza e partecipazione 40% Letture a casa e discussione in classe 30% Esame orale finale N.B.: Nel periodo di emergenza COVID-19 l’esame di profitto sarà svolto secondo quanto previsto all’art.1 del Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 del 5 maggio 2020. Pertanto, durante le sessioni estiva e autunnale 2019/2020, gli esami si terranno in via telematica e in forma orale.

Programma

Il corso si concentra sulla discussione, da una prospettiva multietnica e multiculturale, delle questioni storiche, sociali, politiche ed economiche derivanti dalla lettura della selezione letteraria. Speciale attenzione sarà rivolta all’analisi dei testi letterari al fine di comprenderne il rapporto intercorrente con la letteratura americana mainstream e l’identità nazionale degli Stati Uniti d’America.

Questo corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” e “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Open Road Media, 2013 (1992), 24-36, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (estratti).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” e “Caroline’s Wedding”, in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work”, in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino e Justin Vitiello (a cura di) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” e “Interpreter of Maladies”, in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (estratti).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Amend, Allison. “Overview”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 7-16. Amend, Allison. “Sandra Cisneros”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 63-4. Anonymous. “From Island”. In Lin, Shirley Geok-lin. Asian American Literature. An Anthology. Lincolnwood (IL): NTC Publishing Group, 2000. 31-5. Cheung, King-Kok. “Introduction”. In Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ) Rutgers University Press, 2001, IX-XXIII. Chute, Hillary. “Art Spiegelman”. In Lauter, Paul, et al. (Eds.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Seventh Edition. Volume E. Boston: Cengage, 2014, 3765-7. Cisneros, Sandra. “Introduction”. In The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage, 2009. Coulombe, Joseph L. “Following the Tracks. History and Context of Native Writing.” In Reading Native American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2011. 18-35. “Danticat, Edwidge”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 169-71. Davis, Rocio G. “Oral Narrative as Short Story Cycle: Forging Community in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” MELUS, 26, 2, 2001. 65-81. Doherty, Thomas. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust”. American Literature, 68, 1, 1996. 69-84. Gardaphé, Fred. “We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature”. In Literature Interpretation Theory, 13, 2002. 185-99. Gardaphé, Fred L. “Italian American Literature and Culture”. In Hendin, Josephine G. (Ed.) A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 299-322. Giordano, Paolo. “From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American. Joseph Tusiani’s Gente Mia and Other Poems”. In Tusiani, Joseph, Ethnicity. Selected Poems. New York: Bordighera Press, 2012, 73-86. Hatfield, Charles. “Conclusion: Toward the Habit of Questioning”. In Alternative Comics. An Emerging Literature. Jackson (MS): University of Mississippi Press, 2005. 65-7. “Kingston, Maxine Hong”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 284-9. Kim, Elaine H. “Japanese American Family and Community Portraits”. In Asian American Literature. Philadelphia (PA): Temple University Press, 1982. 122-37. “Lahiri, Jhumpa”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 295-7. Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Trading Stories”. The New Yorker, June 13, 2011. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/13/trading-stories Lewis, Simon. “Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’”. In Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2015. 1463-6. Nagel, James. “Sandra Cisneros’s Cuentitos Latinos.” In The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle. The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton Rouge (LA): Louisiana University Press, 2001. 104-27. Otfinoski, Steven. “Sherman Alexie”. In Native American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010, 99-102. Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”. In Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1516-21. Stern, Carlos Simpson. “Yellow Woman”. In Riggs, Thomas (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999, 1110-1. Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition). New York: Back Bay Books, 2008, 3-20, 447-50. Williams, Laura Anh. “Foodways and Subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”. MELUS, 32, 4, 2007. 69-79. Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia. “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxim Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy”. In Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, ed. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 29-53. Altri materiali di studio saranno forniti durante il corso.

Modalità Erogazione

Agli studenti è richiesto di leggere in anticipo i materiali oggetto delle lezioni e di essere preparati a partecipare alle discussioni in classe.

Modalità Frequenza

La frequenza non è obbligatoria ma è fortemente consigliata.

Modalità Valutazione

30% Frequenza e partecipazione 40% Letture a casa e discussione in classe 30% Esame orale finale N.B.: Nel periodo di emergenza COVID-19 l’esame di profitto sarà svolto secondo quanto previsto all’art.1 del Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 del 5 maggio 2020. Pertanto, durante le sessioni estiva e autunnale 2019/2020, gli esami si terranno in via telematica e in forma orale.

Programma

Il corso si concentra sulla discussione, da una prospettiva multietnica e multiculturale, delle questioni storiche, sociali, politiche ed economiche derivanti dalla lettura della selezione letteraria. Speciale attenzione sarà rivolta all’analisi dei testi letterari al fine di comprenderne il rapporto intercorrente con la letteratura americana mainstream e l’identità nazionale degli Stati Uniti d’America.

Questo corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” e “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Open Road Media, 2013 (1992), 24-36, 59-75.
Alvarez, Julia. “Snow”, in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York: Bloomsbury, 2004 (1991), 86-87.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, London: Vintage, 1991 (1984) (estratti).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” e “Caroline’s Wedding”, in Krik? Krak! New York: Soho Press, 1995, 3-25, 135-188.
Gillan, Maria Mazziotti. “Shame and Silence in My Work”, in Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino e Justin Vitiello (a cura di) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” e “Interpreter of Maladies”, in Interpreter of Maladies. London: Harper UK, 2000, 43-69, 136-157.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Yellow Woman”, in Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1208-15.
Spiegelman, Art. The Complete Maus. Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 2003 (1996) (estratti).
Tusiani, Joseph. Gente Mia (excerpts), in Ethnicity. Selected Poems, New York: Bordighera Press, 2000, 1-6, 8-9.
Yamamoto, Hisaye. “Yoneko’s Earthquake”, in Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2001, 46-56.

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Amend, Allison. “Overview”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 7-16. Amend, Allison. “Sandra Cisneros”. In Hispanic-American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. 63-4. Anonymous. “From Island”. In Lin, Shirley Geok-lin. Asian American Literature. An Anthology. Lincolnwood (IL): NTC Publishing Group, 2000. 31-5. Cheung, King-Kok. “Introduction”. In Yamamoto, Hisaye. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick (NJ) Rutgers University Press, 2001, IX-XXIII. Chute, Hillary. “Art Spiegelman”. In Lauter, Paul, et al. (Eds.) The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Seventh Edition. Volume E. Boston: Cengage, 2014, 3765-7. Cisneros, Sandra. “Introduction”. In The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Vintage, 2009. Coulombe, Joseph L. “Following the Tracks. History and Context of Native Writing.” In Reading Native American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2011. 18-35. “Danticat, Edwidge”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 169-71. Davis, Rocio G. “Oral Narrative as Short Story Cycle: Forging Community in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!” MELUS, 26, 2, 2001. 65-81. Doherty, Thomas. “Art Spiegelman’s Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust”. American Literature, 68, 1, 1996. 69-84. Gardaphé, Fred. “We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Literature”. In Literature Interpretation Theory, 13, 2002. 185-99. Gardaphé, Fred L. “Italian American Literature and Culture”. In Hendin, Josephine G. (Ed.) A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, 299-322. Giordano, Paolo. “From Southern Italian Emigrant to Reluctant American. Joseph Tusiani’s Gente Mia and Other Poems”. In Tusiani, Joseph, Ethnicity. Selected Poems. New York: Bordighera Press, 2012, 73-86. Hatfield, Charles. “Conclusion: Toward the Habit of Questioning”. In Alternative Comics. An Emerging Literature. Jackson (MS): University of Mississippi Press, 2005. 65-7. “Kingston, Maxine Hong”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 284-9. Kim, Elaine H. “Japanese American Family and Community Portraits”. In Asian American Literature. Philadelphia (PA): Temple University Press, 1982. 122-37. “Lahiri, Jhumpa”. In Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Ethnic American Literature. Santa Barbara (CA): Greenwood, 2015. 295-7. Lahiri, Jhumpa. “Trading Stories”. The New Yorker, June 13, 2011. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/13/trading-stories Lewis, Simon. “Lahiri’s ‘Interpreter of Maladies’”. In Charters, Ann. The Story and Its Writer. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, 2015. 1463-6. Nagel, James. “Sandra Cisneros’s Cuentitos Latinos.” In The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle. The Ethnic Resonance of Genre. Baton Rouge (LA): Louisiana University Press, 2001. 104-27. Otfinoski, Steven. “Sherman Alexie”. In Native American Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010, 99-102. Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective”. In Charters, Ann (Ed.) The Story and Its Writer (9th Ed.) Boston and New York: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2015, 1516-21. Stern, Carlos Simpson. “Yellow Woman”. In Riggs, Thomas (ed.) Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Detroit: St. James Press, 1999, 1110-1. Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror. A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition). New York: Back Bay Books, 2008, 3-20, 447-50. Williams, Laura Anh. “Foodways and Subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies”. MELUS, 32, 4, 2007. 69-79. Wong, Sau-Ling Cynthia. “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxim Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and the Chinese American Autobiographical Controversy”. In Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, ed. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. A Casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 29-53. Altri materiali di studio saranno forniti durante il corso.

Modalità Erogazione

Agli studenti è richiesto di leggere in anticipo i materiali oggetto delle lezioni e di essere preparati a partecipare alle discussioni in classe.

Modalità Frequenza

La frequenza non è obbligatoria ma è fortemente consigliata.

Modalità Valutazione

30% Frequenza e partecipazione 40% Letture a casa e discussione in classe 30% Esame orale finale N.B.: Nel periodo di emergenza COVID-19 l’esame di profitto sarà svolto secondo quanto previsto all’art.1 del Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 del 5 maggio 2020. Pertanto, durante le sessioni estiva e autunnale 2019/2020, gli esami si terranno in via telematica e in forma orale.