ENGL170X PO - Asian American Literary and Cultural Critique

When Offered: Irregularly.
Instructor(s): S. Torralba
Credit: 1

This course highlights foundational and recent topics in Asian American literature and cultural critique. We will place works of creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama in conversation with scholarly sources. In doing so, we will study how Asian diasporic communities are subject to, critical of, and sometimes even complicit in systems of structural inequity. Potential authors may include Monique Truong, Mark Aguhar, Akhil Sharma, Nami Mun, and others. Topics may include race and ethnicity; colonialism; labor; transnational movement and migration; cultural memory; and gender, sexuality, disability, and embodiment. Students will develop a creative or research project related to course themes.