This course engages with contemporary multi-ethnic literature in the United States. It focuses primarily on the ways in which authors comment on, critique, renegotiate, and refigure the past to understand the contemporary world they navigate, and in the process, affirm their cultural identity. By engaging with fiction, drama, poetry, and essays from African American, Indigenous American, Hispanic American, and Asian American authors, the course looks at the multi-faceted literary responses to authoritative discourses and narratives firmly anchored in the American collective consciousness and cultural memory.
This course engages with contemporary multi-ethnic literature in the United States. It focuses primarily on the ways in which authors comment on, critique, renegotiate, and refigure the past to understand the contemporary world they navigate, and in the process, affirm their cultural identity. By engaging with fiction, drama, poetry, and essays from African American, Indigenous American, Hispanic American, and Asian American authors, the course looks at the multi-faceted literary responses to authoritative discourses and narratives firmly anchored in the American collective consciousness and cultural memory.
