Literature from the Chinese Diaspora

3 Credits.

Study of the literature and criticism of the Chinese Diaspora in North America from the 1980s to the present, with emphasis on narrative choices, plotting, cross-cultural decision-making, realism, immigration, competing political/interpretive/economic systems, and historical memory and trauma. Authors include Yiyun Li, Ken Liu, Madeleine Thien, Chia-Chia Lin, Weike Wang, Max Yeh, Iris Chang, Amy Tan, with an option for Chinese language students and native speakers to read works in Chinese by Glenn Cao and Chang Lin.