2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
Asian American Studies
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
ASIAN AM 380-0 Sec. 28 
Cancelled
Asian American Arts and Performance: Contemporary Asian Diaspora Fiction
8 weeks,
EVAN,
6/23 - 7/30
Tu 6 - 9pm
Jillana Enteen
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2359.
This class will examine fiction and films by and about Asians in diaspora during the past several decades. We will begin with essays that examine the notion of diaspora and discuss the specific conditions of diaspora for writers/filmmakers from South East Asia and South Asia. Continuing this trajectory, we will read several novels and short stories and see films written by Asians no longer residing in what they consider their homes. Our discussions will focus on specifically on ways in which race, gender and sexuality are articulated within these texts. Possible READING LIST : Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo; The Pagoda, Patricia Powell; The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi; Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai; Dogeaters, Jessica Hagedorn; Gold by the Inch Lawrence Chua; The Salt Eaters, Monique Truang; FILMS/VIDEOS: My Life as a Poster, Shashwati Talukdar; Happy Together, Wang Kar-wai; Khush, Pratibha Parmar; Fated to be Queer, Pablo Bautista; Fresh Kill, Shu Lea Cheang. GRADING: Midterm Essay 20%; Final Essay 20%; Final Exam 20%; Class Project 20%; Class Participation 20%. This course is cross-listed with ENGLISH 383-0.
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