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Spring 2025  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature (64870)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025
Tue 03:35PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64870/1253

Fall 2020  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Race and Performance (33042)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
12 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (12 of 10 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
This course focuses on issues of U.S. racial formation, representation, and performance both on and off the stage. We will pair historical and contemporary plays with scholarly readings on American history, cross-racial performance, orientalism, settler-colonialism, immigration, and xenophobia. We will emphasize how theater - as work, practice, and institution rather than simply as metaphor - articulates and manages particular kinds of racial encounters; however, the questions we ask will also be relevant to the study of literature, film, music, dance, and other cultural forms. This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
This seminar will consider how literature and culture help construct or challenge contemporary formulations of Asian American racial formation, history, community, culture, and politics. How has recent scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies addressed the study of literature, culture, and theory? We will focus on four main topics: (1) visibility and representation; (2) recovery projects and Asian American literary/cultural archives; (3) imperialism, nation, and transnationalism; and (4) intersectional/interdisciplinary approaches to Asian American literature/performance.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33042/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 April 2017

Spring 2019  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Lit, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era (64764)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Meets With:
AMST 8920 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019
Thu 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Enrollment Status:
Closed (8 of 8 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
"Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era" will examine African American literature of the 1950s-1970s, theoretical interventions in the era's political debates (by a range of thinkers including James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, and others) with a particular focus on how Civil Rights struggles impacted black nationalist and Marxian discourses, and the ways in which the rhetoric and political strategies of Civil Rights continue to shape race-based activism in the present moment.
Class Description:
"Literature, Politics, and Culture of the Civil Rights Era" will examine African American literature of the 1950s-1970s, theoretical interventions in the era's political debates (by a range of thinkers including James Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, and others) with a particular focus on how Civil Rights struggles impacted black nationalist and Marxian discourses, and the ways in which the rhetoric and political strategies of Civil Rights continue to shape race-based activism in the present moment.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64764/1193
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 April 2018

Fall 2017  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies (36652)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 302
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement, Race and Performance, Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies

Since the late 1960s, Asian American literature and culture inspired a burgeoning field of academic inquiry. This seminar will examine questions central to Asian American literary and cultural studies. How are the aims, methods, and practices of this field shaped by the activist politics and interdisciplinary methods of ethnic studies? How has it been affected by the post-structuralist turns of contemporary literary and cultural theory? How are the canons and archives of Asian American literature and culture constructed and interpreted? How do scholars working on Asian American literature and culture engage postcolonial theory, transnational and global identities, and comparative racial and ethnic studies? How do contemporary genres of literature, digital arts, and performance challenge scholars to re-envision what Asian American literature and culture means? In addition to requiring an extended research project, the course will also encourage an active pedagogical component that highlights the development of course syllabi and other materials related to teaching Asian American literature and culture.

Readings will include selections from the following works:

  • 路 Frank Chin, "Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake"
  • 路 Kandice Chuh, Imagine Otherwise: on Asian Americanist Critique
  • 路 Shilpa Dav茅, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha Oren, Global Asian American Popular Cultures
  • 路 David Eng, Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
  • 路 Claire Jean Kim, "The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans"
  • 路 Susan Koshy, Sexual Naturalization
  • 路 Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America: A History
  • 路 Julia H. Lee, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
  • 路 Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and The Intimacies of Four Continents
  • 路 Colleen Lye, America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
  • 路 Daryl Maeda, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
  • 路 Viet Nguyen, Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
  • 路 Vijay Prashad, Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Racial Purity
  • 路 Min Song, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
  • 路 John Kuowei Tchen, New York Before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/36652/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 May 2017

Spring 2015  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Race and Performance (68154)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Tue 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 207A
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
This course focuses on the ways that American racial formation has intersected with performance both on and off the stage. We will look at a number of interdisciplinary approaches to racial formation and discuss issues such as racial impersonation and blackface minstrelsy, orientalism, racial triangulation, and contemporary immigration. We will also look more closely at how theater - as work, practice, and institution rather than simply as metaphor - manages particular kinds of racial encounters. Readings will include historical and critical studies such as Ronald Takaki's Iron Cages, Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, and Philip Deloria's Indians in Unexpected Places as well as plays by Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68154/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 October 2014

Spring 2013  |  ENGL 8300 Section 001: Seminar in American Minority Literature -- Race & Performance (66427)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 03:35PM - 06:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 215
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Sample topics: Harlem Renaissance, ethnic autobiographies, Black Arts movement. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
ENGL 8300 Seminar in American Minority Literature: "Race and Performance" Wednesdays 3:35-6:05 p.m. Central Time Taught by Professor Josephine Lee This course examines how the terms of theater, such as "mask," "scene," "acting," and "performance" might serve not only as broad analogies for how race works in everyday life, but also a more pointed way of looking at the history and present state of racial formation. Readings will encompass a range of texts drawn from humanistic, artistic, legal, and social science perspectives that give insight into these metaphors. We will also look more closely at how theater's work, practice, and institution rather than simply as metaphor manages particular kinds of racial encounters. Theater operates not only through a set of artistic and expressive choices, but also through the behind-the-scenes terms of casting, training, rehearsal, physical spaces, and audience development. Collectively, we will reflect further upon some of the deeper connections that can be made between how race is staged in the theater and how it is performed offstage. Readings will include historical and critical studies such as Ronald Takaki's Iron Cages, Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, and Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection, as well as plays by Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others. This offering is available through CourseShare to graduate students at CIC universities. Please contact Charity Rae Farber if you are a non-Minnesota graduate student interested in joining the course. More information on the CourseShare program is available at http://www.cic.net/Home/Projects/SharedCourses/CourseShare/Introduction.aspx
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
25% Attendance
25% Class Participation
Class Format:
25% Lecture
75% Discussion
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66427/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 October 2012

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