ENGL 475
Special Studies in Ethnic American Literature
Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0
A study of one or more 20th-century minority American literary traditions, including African American, Asian American, Latino/a, Native American, Jewish American, Arab American and others.
A01-Fall: Beyond "Reality": Graphic Novels and Multicultural Mythologies
Welcome to worlds inhabited by mountain spirits, the Dream Lord, post-apocalyptic survivors, multicultural tricksters and the time-traveling descendants of slaves. Considers the ways writers grounded in traditional belief systems - African, Native American and Chinese - push the boundaries of reality to create a fascinating new type of multicultural literature and hybrid worldviews. Our mixed media approach includes reading cutting-edge multicultural narratives and immersing ourselves in the wildly popular genre of graphic novels.
A01-Spring: Jewish Fiction
An introduction to Jewish literature, focusing on North American fiction of the twentieth century. Are there recognizably American Jewish literary styles? How does this literature reflect the development of North American Jewish identities that are separate from, yet influenced by, Jewish identities and practices in other times and places? Topics will include: immigration, diaspora, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, gender, class, Israel, communities, assimilation, tribalism, belief, nationalism, politics, ritual, and language.
Note: Topic is announced each year. May be taken more than once for credit in different topics to a maximum of 3 units.
Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.
