A comparative study of ethnic literatures in the United States, including African-American, Arabic-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, Jewish-American, and Native-American literatures. Special emphasis will be placed on the relevance of these texts to contemporary society around the world and on the complex transactions between literary and socio-political discourse.
Athena Title
Comparative Ethnic Amer Lit
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in CMLT 2500H
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be exposed to multiethnic literatures from the United States, emphasizing the relevance of these texts to contemporary society around the world.
Students will have enhanced critical thinking.
Students will have improved oral communication.
Students will have improved writing.
Topical Outline
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Nella Larsen, Quicksand
Michael Harper, Dear John, Dear Coltrane
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Lan Samantha Chang, Hunger
Junot Diaz, Drown
David Henry Hwang, M Butterfly
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera
Special emphasis will be placed on the relevance of these texts to contemporary society around the world.
