Programme

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of the literary texts in order to understand their relationship with mainstream American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

This course is taught in English.

Core Documentation

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” and “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) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “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 and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “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) (excerpts).
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.

Reference Bibliography

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. Other study materials will be provided during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Students are expected to come to class having read all the assigned readings. In addition, they should be prepared to engage in in-class discussions.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

30% Attendance and participation 40% Home reading and discussion 30% Final oral exam Please note: for the AY 2019/2020 Summer and Autumn Exam Sessions, the assessment will be based on online oral exams.

Programme

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of the literary texts in order to understand their relationship with mainstream American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

This course is taught in English.

Core Documentation

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” and “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) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “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 and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “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) (excerpts).
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.

Reference Bibliography

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. Other study materials will be provided during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Students are expected to come to class having read all the assigned readings. In addition, they should be prepared to engage in in-class discussions.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

30% Attendance and participation 40% Home reading and discussion 30% Final oral exam Please note: for the AY 2019/2020 Summer and Autumn Exam Sessions, the assessment will be based on online oral exams.

Programme

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of the literary texts in order to understand their relationship with mainstream American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

This course is taught in English.

Core Documentation

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” and “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) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “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 and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “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) (excerpts).
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.

Reference Bibliography

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. Other study materials will be provided during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Students are expected to come to class having read all the assigned readings. In addition, they should be prepared to engage in in-class discussions.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

30% Attendance and participation 40% Home reading and discussion 30% Final oral exam Please note: for the AY 2019/2020 Summer and Autumn Exam Sessions, the assessment will be based on online oral exams.

Programme

The course focuses on the discussion, from a multiethnic and multicultural perspective, of historical, social, political and economic issues that arise from the reading of the literary selection. Special attention will be given to the analysis of the literary texts in order to understand their relationship with mainstream American literature and the national identity of the United States of America.

This course is taught in English.

Core Documentation

Alexie, Sherman. “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at Woodstock” and “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) (excerpts).
Danticat, Edwidge. “Children of the Sea” and “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 and Justin Vitiello (eds.) Breaking Open: Reflections on Italian American Women’s Writing. West Lafayette (IN): Purdue University Press, 2003, 153-175.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. “This Blessed House” and “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) (excerpts).
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.

Reference Bibliography

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. Other study materials will be provided during the course.

Type of delivery of the course

Students are expected to come to class having read all the assigned readings. In addition, they should be prepared to engage in in-class discussions.

Attendance

Class attendance is not mandatory but is strongly recommended.

Type of evaluation

30% Attendance and participation 40% Home reading and discussion 30% Final oral exam Please note: for the AY 2019/2020 Summer and Autumn Exam Sessions, the assessment will be based on online oral exams.