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Introduction Key Concepts, Definitions, Debates (American Studies, Multiculturalism, Eurocentrism) • Heinz Ickstadt “American Studies in an Age of Globalization” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562. • Shohat, Ella, Stam Robert, “From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism”, in Unthinking Eurocentrism, 13- 46. • Ronald Takaki, “A Different Mirror: To see The U. S. as a Multicultural Society” USIA Electronic Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, August 1997 • Articles from Newsweek Sept-Nov 2001: “Divided Lives”, “Patriotism vs. Ethnic Pride”, “Facing Our Fear”, “An Immigrant’s Faith”, “A Quilt of a Country”. • Suggested readings Multiculturalism Now, Palumbo –Liu Unsettling the American Experience: Immigration, Transnationalism and Globalization • Benedict Anderson, “The concept of a Nation”, 473-476. Suggested Web sources theories of nationalism Click e pag cu nationalism • Jameson, Frederic, “Globalization and Political Strategy”, New Left Review, Jul. Aug. 2000, 49-68 • Arif Dirlik, “The Global in the Local”, 21-46, in Global/Local • Jamaica Kincaid Small Place The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity Werner Sollors, “Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity”, in Invention of Ethnicity (1989) ix-3 • Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986) 1-19 • Edward R. Kantowicz – “Ethnicity”, 453 -466 in Encyclopedia of American Social History • “Race” in Encyclopedia of American Social History • Shohat, Ella, Stam Robert, “Ethnicities-in-Relation” 220-241, in Unthinking Eurocentrism, • David A. Hollinger, PostEthnic America, 1995. (CLICK si apar cele 2 reviews BR review) • Cornel West, ”Diverse New World” 557-563, in SL • Michael Omi, “In Living Color: Race and American Culture”, 491- 504, in SL. • Miriam Schurman, “Affirmative Action or Negative Action”, 269-274 AV Optional Reading Dennis Baron, How to be a person, not a number, on the U.S. Census, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr 3, 1998 Undeva cu click si imaginea de sec 19 din harpers weekely Native Americans American cultures before 1492 and "Columbian" Encounters (the Caliban factor. Enviromental perspectives on colonization.) The White Man's Indian (click si vin site-urile cu curtis dar faceti voi legatura si acknowledge la sf de unde e info-ul si poze etc), Debunking American myths • Susan Shown Harjo, “I Won’t be Celebrating Columbus Day”, 135-137 • Points of View: Columbus – “The Conqueror of Paradise?” 34-35 • Philip Deloria, Playing Indian, Yale University Press, 1998. • Shohat, Ella, Stam Robert, “The Columbus Debate” 61-71, in Unthinking Eurocentrism, Native American Writers • Leslie Marmon Silko, “The Border Patrol State”, • Gerald Vizenor idem • Scott Momaday idem • Louis Erdrich idem Web Resources for Native Americans http://www.hist.umn.edu/%7Ehist20c/internet/native.htm http://amindianlit.topcities.com/index.html African American history and culture Readings in African American literary, cultural, and historical theory and criticism, and early narratives. The phenomenon of the "Invisible Man"; concepts of "double consciousness", the "self" and "Other" in the study of African Americans. • W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Penguin Books, 1994 (1903) excerpts • Paul Gilroy, “Route Work: The Black Atlantic and the Politics of Exile”, in the Post-Colonial Question,17-30 • bell hooks, "Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination," in Grossberg, et.al., eds. Cultural Studies 338-46. /bell hooks, “Postmodern Blackness”, 627-631 in PAF • Benjamin DeMott: Put on a Happy Face: Masking the Differences between Blacks and Whites, 295-306 in SL • Toni Morrison, “Playing in the Dark” 2506-2512 in Am Lit • Toni Morrison/ Ishmael Reed/Audre Lorde • African American Stereotypes Click si apare site-ul cu African am stereotypes • African American Music link la handout cu lyrics, la articolul din Encarta, Web resources African am culture http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/afrocul.html http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/images/diversity_african_images01.html Latino/Latina Intra-Cultural Diversity: "Culturally specific" histories and selections of literature by Chicano/Chicana, Puerto Rican (island and mainland), Cuban American, and Latin American writers in the US. Multilingualism in the US. • Ramon A Gutierrez, Hispanic Diaspora and Chicano identity in the United States , The South Atlantic Quarterly Durham Winter 1999 • Jose Saldivar, Border Matters, University of California Press, 1997, 1-14, 17-36. • Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Spinsters/ Aunt Lute Press, 1987), 20-35. Click imagine , link anzaldua def borderland, A historical backround of US Mexican Border The treaty of Guadalupe • Guillermo Gomez –Pena: The 90s Culture of Xenophobia, 574-581 • Richard Rodriguez 597-599, “An American Writer” 3-14 in The Invention of Ethnicity • Helena Maria Viramontes, “The Cariboo Café”, 76-88. • Cristina Garcia • Julia Alvarez Web resources http://www.hist.umn.edu/%7Ehist20c/internet/latin.htm http://www.auntlute.com/anzaldua.htm http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/ANZALDUAgloria.html http://webpages.shepherd.edu/ltate/WebQuestAnzaldua.htm The Americas (plural): views of and from Carribean, and Pacific Island contemporary cultures; evidence, effects, and interpretations of colonialism, postcolonialism, and neo colonialism; possibilities for a new internationalism and global vision. • Antonio Benitez-Rojo, “The Repeating Island” • Cliff, Michelle, (link la pagina despre ea, si cele 2 intreviuri) History as fiction, fiction as history, Ploughshares, Cambridge, Fall 1994 • Kincaid, Jamaica • “Islander Once, Now Voyager”, The New York Times, Sept 2000 • Kincaid, Jamaica, “In History” Callaloo 20.1 (1997) 1-7 • Kincaid, Jamaica, “Girl” 2843-2845 ALit Web resources: http://www.welcometothecaribbean.com/culture.htm http://www.thecaribbeanwriter.com/ http://www.libarts.ucok.edu/english/faculty/stein/world/caribbean/ Asian Americans. Issues arising from Asian American constructions of culture. Historical and literary bases for inclusive ways of defining our subject, "American Cultures". • Lowe, Lisa, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham, Duke University Press, 1996., 1-37, 84-97. • Frank Chin vs. Kingston • Maxine Hong Kingston (click la documetele cu Kinston, interviews, criticism din folderol Kingston) "Cultural Mis-readings by American Reviewers" • Frank Chin, “Donald Duk and the White Monsters” 66-72 AV • Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” 11-17, “Rules of the Game” 480-489. • Bharati Mukherjee “Two Ways to Belong to America”, “Beyond Multiculturalism” 454 – 461. • Gish Jen Mona in the Promised Land, 2717 -2737, “In the American Society” 153-165, Becoming American: Personal Journeys" Interview With Gish Jen • Wong Sam and Assistants: An English Chinese Phrase Book, 379-388 • Asian American Stereotypes • Dorinne K. Kondo, “On Being a Conceptual Anomaly” 523-531, SL • Fan Shen, “The Classroom and the Wider Culture”: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition”, 531-541, SL • Sui Sin Far in Heath 834 -850, “In the Land of the Free” 3-11/ • David Henry Hwang, “M. Butterfly, Heath Web resources http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/ http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/TANamy.html http://www.tampines.org.sg/story1.html http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/tan0int-1 http://www.salon.com/12nov1995/feature/tan.html http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/KINGSTONmaxinehong.html http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/kingston.htm Different Histories, Different Voices: Arab Americans and Other Middle Easterners: "orientalism", (CLICK orientalism a brief def si orientalism) or the European construct of "the orient"; Arab arts and sciences in the construction of Europe and America (Edward Said, Orientalism, Autobiography) Hassan • Said, Edward, Orientalism, New York: Vintage, 1994 (1978). “Palestine, Then and Now: An Exile's Journey through Israel and the Occupied Territories.” Harper's Magazine, December, pp. 47-51. 1992. • “Between Worlds." London Review of Books, 7 May 3-5,1998. • Hassan, Ihab, “Beyond Exile: A Postcolonial Intellectual Abroad” in Southern Review Summer 29.3, 1993. • Hassan, Counterpoints: Nationalism, colonialism, multiculturalism, etc. in personal perspective, in Multicultural States, 282-295. Easterness, East European Visions • Maria Todorova , Imagining the Balkans, 1997 excerpts • Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania, 1998, excerpts • Eva Hoffman, from Lost in Translation 219-228 • Andrei Codrescu, The Muse is Half Dressed in New Orleans, excerpts In Conclusion • Timothy Brennan, Cosmo-theory, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Durham , Summer 2001 • Susie O'Brien, Imre Szeman, Introduction: The globalization of fiction/the fiction of globalization , The South Atlantic Quarterly ,Durham, Summer 2001 • Abena Busia, Re:locations – Rethinking Britain from Accra, New York, and the Map Room of the British Museum, 267- 282 • Ruth Frankenberg and Lata Mani, Cross Currents, Crosstalk: Race, “Postcoloniality”, and the Politics of Location in Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, 273 – 294. The course is structured as a series of lecture-seminars, with an introductory talk followed by student presentations and class discussion, in which all students are expected to take part. Students are expected to prepare two oral presentations, each focusing on a discussion theme for that seminar. One oral presentation will be developed into a 3000 word essay in M.L.A. citation style.