EGL 255 - (244) Asian American Literature and Film

Course Units: 1

(Not offered in 2015-16) Offered three years out of four. A study of Asian American literature in its historical context beginning with the first wave of Asian immigration in the nineteenth century, moving to the anti-Asian Exclusion Acts, Japanese internment during the Second World War, the 1960s Civil Rights Movements and the emergence of Asian American Studies, Southeast Asian refugee experience, and concluding with contemporary Asian America. Common Curriculum CC: HUL, LCC