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Spring 2022 |
53/1 Asian American Literature and Culture: TTh 6:30 - 8 |
Professor Leong's course is listed both as English 53 and as Asian American Studies (ASAMST) 20C. It is the same course (same time, same room; slightly different title). If you cannot enroll directly in English 53, you can enroll via ASAMST...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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Fall 2021 |
132/1 MWF 2-3 |
“The”? “American”? “Novel&rdquo...(read more) |
Snyder, Katherine
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Fall 2021 |
166/2 Special Topics: TTh 11-12:30 |
This course takes up the question of protest and dissent &nda...(read more) |
Saha, Poulomi
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Spring 2021 |
153T/1 Topics in Asian American Literature and Culture: TTh 9:30-11 |
This class (previously listed under "English 166/5" in Spring 2019) provides a foundation for reading Asian American literature at three levels of scale: world, nation, and locality. At the world scale, we will discuss the polit...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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Spring 2021 |
165AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: MWF 1-2 |
American humor practices have long been a means for bolstering fictions about race, ethnicity and identity, but they also have been a means for understanding, navigating, and challenging those fictions. This course will explore how a range of liter...(read more) |
Fehrenbacher, Dena
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Fall 2020 |
31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: TTh 9:30-11 |
In this class, we are going to do and to talk about work: getting work, making it work, working the system. This course, which constitutes a survey of ethnic American literature, asks about the desires, imagination, and labor that go into...(read more) |
Saha, Poulomi
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Fall 2020 |
53/1 Asian American Literature and Culture: TTh 2-3:30 |
This is a lecture and discussion course that surveys early to contemporary Asian American literary and cultural production. We'll study the broad range of forms that have served as vehicles of Asian American political and cultura...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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Spring 2020 |
135AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: Lectures TTh 4-5 in 140 Barrows + one hour of discussion section per week in 305 Wheeler (sec. 101: F 12-1; sec. 102: F 1-2) |
This course, which constitutes a survey of ethnic American literature, asks about the desires, imagination, and labor that go into the American dream. What is the relationship between immigration and dreams of upward mobility in America? This cours...(read more) |
Saha, Poulomi
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Spring 2020 |
165AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: TTh 11-12:30 |
This class will explore how 20th- and 21st-century American prose fictions have imagined the relationship between religion and ethnicity. Our first questions will be formal: How do different formal choices allow these writers ...(read more) |
Fehrenbacher, Dena
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Spring 2020 |
166/2 Special Topics: MWF 11-12 |
This is a course on the literature of incarceration variously defined and experienced across a range of control systems that attempt to stunt the entire human being. I want to think about the forms of suppression, confinement, and the humiliations ...(read more) |
Padilla, Genaro M.
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Fall 2019 |
31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: MWF 9-10 |
America, we are told, is a nation of immigrants—of people from other lands who travel here and “become” American. That's a tall order. But what of those who can never quite belong—the misfits, outliers and strangers in t...(read more) |
Saha, Poulomi
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Fall 2019 |
53/1 Asian American Literature and Culture: MWF 1-2 |
This is a brand-new lecture and discussion course that provides a survey of early to contemporary Asian American literary and cultural production. We'll study the broad range of forms that have served as vehicles of Asian American pol...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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Fall 2019 |
166/4 Special Topics: TTh 9:30-11 |
This aim of this survey is two-fold: First, to interrogate the concept of nationhood and, particularly, what it means to be American. Focusing on writings by and about peoples of Asian descent across the twentieth century and into the twenty-...(read more) |
Lee, Steven S.
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Spring 2019 |
166/5 Special Topics: MWF 1-2 |
This class provides a foundation for reading Asian American literature at three levels of scale: world, nation, and locality. At the world scale, we will discuss the political origins of the phrase “Asian American” in the late 1960...(read more) |
Leong, Andrew Way
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Spring 2017 |
166AC/1 Special Topics in American Cultures: MWF 1-2 |
This aim of this survey is two-fold: First, to interrogate the concept of nationhood and, particularly, what it means to be American. Focusing on writings by and about peoples of Asian descent across the twentieth century and into the twenty...(read more) |
Lee, Steven S.
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Fall 2016 |
250/2 Research Seminar: Tues. 3:30-6:30 |
This seminar will explore the convergence of modernist and ethnic cultures in twentieth-century America and Europe, placing race and ethnicity in dialogue with the modernist compulsion to "make it new" and the avant-gardist compulsion to...(read more) |
Lee, Steven S.
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Fall 2015 |
31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: TTh 11-12:30 |
In this course we will consider a variety of texts—contemporary fiction, classic and new film, journalism, history, and cultural criticism—that help us explore the possibilities for writing the migrant self and experience. The shifting...(read more) |
Ellis, Nadia
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Fall 2014 |
31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: TTh 9:30-11 |
A few miles from UC Berkeley’s campus, positioned in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz, sits Angel Island, site of a California State Park and one-time “processing center” (1910-1940) for migrants crossing the Pacific into the ...(read more) |
Ellis, Nadia
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Fall 2014 |
190/13 |
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Lye, Colleen
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Summer 2014 |
N31AC/1 Literature of American Cultures: MTuTh 2-4 |
The United States Constitution refers to “We, the People,” as if it’s obvious who’s included in – and excluded from – that “we.” In fact, though, the reality has always been much messier. Fights over...(read more) |
Mansouri, Leila
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Fall 2013 |
166/2 Special Topics: TTh 12:30-2 |
This course will explore inventive ways of engaging the theater text. Students will read from a selection of plays and be expected to give presentations analyzing theme, story, as well as point of view of the playwright. This will be follow...(read more) |
Gotanda, Philip Kan
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Fall 2013 |
180A/1 Autobiography: TTh 11-12:30 |
We will take a group of texts--conventional memoir, poetry, painting, photography, and I-focused new media--to explore what American auto/bio/graphy really means. We will start in the 18th century with Benjamin Franklin and close with a...(read more) |
Padilla, Genaro M.
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