Contemporary Multi-ethnic Literature (ENG-0069)

Spring 2025 · ENG 0069 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Introductory study of novels, memoirs, plays, film, and visual arts concerned with how various gendered, national, linguistic, and racial identifications impel artists toward forms of aesthetic experimentation. Special attention to the use of fictional narrative to produce alternative histories and to the question of multi-culturalism as understood in the academy. Texts may include: Richard Wright's Black Boy/American Hunger, Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Chang Rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Maria Helena Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus, and the documentary films Mississippi Triangle and Eyes on the Prize.

Course codes: ENG-0069, ENG 0069, ENG0069, ENG-69, ENG 69, ENG69, WGSS-0069, WGSS 0069, WGSS0069, WGSS-69, WGSS 69, WGSS69

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