LIT 258 Asians Speak Up! Reimagining Asian Lives from East to West
3 hours
This course explores the meaning of 'Asian' by contrasting the racial stereotyping of Asians on page and screen with how Asian writers, performers, and personalities have resisted and redefined those stereotypes. The course will consider works portraying 'Asians' in past and present, from two standpoints-the negative 'othering' imposed by dominant western cultures and the positive representations by Asians of themselves. It will examine the global Asian within modern and post-modern contexts of the West's relations with the different regions of Asia. The course also will investigate global Asian strategies for confronting the historical determinism of a self 'othered' by East-West differences and see how Asians are devising new definitive restructurings of 'myself' and the world.
Notes
This course satisfies the Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues area of the Gen Ed program.