Empire, Border Crossing, and Multiethnic Literature of the U.S.

5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Seminar, four hours. Exploration of evolution of postcolonial studies through contemporary works of multiethnic American literature. Examination of how primary texts of fiction or creative nonfiction question literary conventions of allegedly mainstream Euro-American literature. Consideration of what manifestations of empire, diasporic mobility, and generic mutability unite or separate creative works in question. Consideration of the meditations on identity and intersectionality that creative and critical texts offer as they intersect notions of race, class, gender, sexual identity, ethnicity, nationality, and migration. Consideration of the aesthetic or critical possibilities that multiethnic American storytelling open up for future of postcolonial and transnational studies. P/NP or letter grading.