Introductory course to major themes and trends within Asian American literature. This course will cover plays, novels, and poems, alongside historical documents, newspaper clips, and films to consider how these different genres create parallel, and at times contradictory, narratives about what we have come to call Asian America. We will interrogate various forms of Asian American representation: political, cultural, and literary, and consider how these genres make Asian American fictions not necessarily fantasy, but fantastic in the way they traverse between reality and representation.
3 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Introductory course to major themes and trends within Asian American literature. This course will cover plays, novels, and poems, alongside historical documents, newspaper clips, and films to consider how these different genres create parallel, and at times contradictory, narratives about what we have come to call Asian America. We will interrogate various forms of Asian American representation: political, cultural, and literary, and consider how these genres make Asian American fictions not necessarily fantasy, but fantastic in the way they traverse between reality and representation.
Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.