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EL 132 | American Immigrant Literature (Spring 2012) Currently Under Revision for Fall 2012. FJ Contact/Home - Simple Site Menu Am Lit Author Links: Before ~1860 | 1860 - 1910 | 1910 - 1945 | 1945 ff Midterm Review Slides General US Immigrant Lit / Immigrant Experience Links ALA's
Becoming American Site (ALA) The Immigrant Experience (Ellis Island Site) "Authors Explore American Immigrant Experience" (NPR) Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (PBS/Moyers) Becoming Americans Anthology (Library of America) SCHEDULE Jump to: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 - Week 6 - Week 7 Week 8 - Week 9 - Week 10 - Week 11 - Week 12 - Week 13 - Week 14 - Final Week 1 (Feb. 1 and 3) Remember that you need to either PRINT online texts or have some way (Kindle? iPad? Laptop?) to view your electronic copy in class. Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Introduction to the Course Day 3: Gardner, Chapter 1 + Watch “Jennifer 8. Lee Hunts for General Tso” Week 2 (Feb. 6, 8, and 10) Day 1: Selections from The Relation (Cabeza de Vaca) + Selections from A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (de las Casas) (Texts available in our Blackboard "Readings" section.) Remember
that you need to either PRINT texts for class or have some way
(Kindle? iPad? Laptop?) to view your electronic copy in class.
Showing up for a discussion without a copy of the text under discussion
is super lame.
Day 2: Gardner, Chapter 4 (but skip the two stories in Gardner) + “No Name Woman” (Maxine Hong Kingston) (On Bb) Day 3: Guided Writing 1 (No new reading, but bring a paper copy of whichever text you've most interesting/compelling so far, and bring along the handout with rhetorical triangle, Foucault terms, etc. Laptops allowed/encouraged for guided writing days.) Week 3 (Feb. 13, 15, and 17) Day 1: Gardner, Chapter 5 +
"The
Magnificent Seven" (The Clash, YouTube)
"The
Magnificent Seven" (The Lyrics, More or Less)
"Ninth and Hennepin" (Tom Waits, YouTube)"Ninth and Hennepin" (Words/Lyrics)
"Oread"
(H.D.)"Arrival" (Judith Ortiz Cofer) "Ducks" (Naomi Shihab Nye) Additional Links (Not Required Reading) Judith Ortiz Cofer on growing in Paterson, NJ Day 2: Poetry, Cont. Two Additional Poem "My
Father and the Figtree" (Naomi Shihab Nye)
"For My Father" (Janice Mirikitani, available via Bb) Day 3: Poetry, Cont. Two Additional Poems Week 4 (Feb. 20 and 22) Day 1: One Additional Poem: "Persimmons" (Li-Young Lee, available via Bb) Day 2: Poetry, Cont., Inc. Prosody Discussion Day 3: No Class (Faculty Development Day) Week 5 (Feb. 27 and 29, Mar. 2) Friday (Day 3): Essay 1 Due by 5:00 pm + Turn in Guided Writing Portfolio Guided Writing 1 Includes 2 Days Worth of Guided Writing (See GW Days, Above.) Day
1: Guided Writing. Bring the poem you intend to write about for Essay
1. (Check the list of eligible poems on the assignment sheet!)
Laptops welcome/encouraged. Day 2: "Why They Came" from A Nation of Immigrants (John F. Kennedy, via Bb) + Selections from American Passage (Vincent J. Cannato, via Bb) + "The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices of Rye" (Gary Shteyngart, also available via Bb) (Note that I won't be testing you on all the specific dates in Cannato, though you should have a good general sense of the years/time period when all this happened.) Additional Links (Not Required Reading): "There are
No Cats in America" (Audio from An American Tail) "There are No Cats in America" (Video from An American Tail) Visualizing Immigration (Flawed but Interesting) Day 3: "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian" and "In the Land of the Free" (Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far) + “An English-Chinese Phrase Book” (Wong Sam and Assistants) Additional Links (Not Required Reading): Chinese Exclusion Act (archived at PBS/The West) Week 6 (Mar. 5, 7, and 9) NEXT Monday: Notice that Exam 1 is NEXT MONDAY! UPDATE: Moved to Weds. Day 3: The Promised Land, Chapter
1 and Chapter
9 (Mary Antin) + "America and I" (Anzia Yezierska) (Note: The Antin is available online or via Blackboard.) Day 2: Yekl (Abraham Cahan), Chapters 1-5. Day 3: Yekl, to the end (of Yekl). Week 7 (Mar. 12, 14, and 16) Monday: Exam 1 UPDATE: Moved to Weds. Monday or Tuesday NIGHT: In Time of War Screening UPDATE: Moved to After Break Day 1: Exam 1 UPDATE: Read Yamamato for Today Day 2: “Seventeen Syllables” (Hisaye Yamamoto) (Available Via Blackbaord) UPDATE: Exam 1
Day 3: “In the American Society” (Gish Jen) (Available Via Blackboard) <<SPRING BREAK>> Week 8 (Mar. 26, 28, and 30) Day 1: No-No Boy (John Okada), Chapters 1-3 Day 2: No-No Boy, Chapters 4-7 Day 3: No-No Boy, Chapters 8-11 Week 9 (Apr. 2 and 4) Friday (Day 3): Essay 2 Due by 5:00 pm (But I Will Accept Them as "On Time" Until Class Time on Monday) Day
1: Guided Writing. Complete assigned prewriting before class, and
bring along your copy of the work you have chosen to write about for
Essay 2. Laptops welcome/encouraged. Day 2: "The Politics of Recognition" (Excerpt) (Charles Taylor) Day 3: No Class (Good Friday) Week 10 (Apr. 9, 11, and 13) Friday (Day 3): Any (100% Optional) Revisions of Essay 1 Due by 5:00 pm Day 1: "Searching for Gold Mountain" (Ronald Takaki) Day 2: Gardner, Chapter 6 + David Henry Hwang: “Searching for Chinatown” Day 3: FOB (David Henry Hwang), Act 1 Week 11 (Apr. 16, 18, and 20) Day 1: FOB, Act 2 Day 2: I Don’t Have To Show You No Stinking Badges! (Luis Valdez), Act 1 Day 3: I Don’t Have To Show You No Stinking Badges!, Act 2 Week 12 (Apr. 23, 25, and 27) Day 1: Zoot Suit (Luis Valdez), Act 1 + (In Class) Clips from Zoot Suit film. Day 2: Zoot Suit, Act 2 + (In Class) Clips from Zoot Suit film. Day 3: Guided Writing. Bring your copy of the play you have chosen to write about for Essay 3; have in mind one small section/scene from the play on which you'd like to write. Laptops welcome/encouraged. Week 13 (Apr. 30, May 2 and 4) Monday or Tuesday NIGHT: Far and Away Screening Wednesday (Day 2): Essay 3 Due by 5:00 pm + Turn in Guided Writing Portfolio Guided Writing 2 Includes One Day of Guided Writing (See Above) and Prewriting for Essay 2. Day 1: "Emigrants from Erin" (Ronald Takaki) + Monday or Tuesday Night: Far and Away Screening Screening: Monday, 7-9:30, Far and Away Screening Day 2: Far and Away Discussion + Essay 3 Due by 5:00 pm + Turn in Guided Writing Portfolio Day 3: View/Discuss Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (We'll watch it in class! No homework!) (BTW: Linked version = lower quality, worse music than in-class version.) Week 14 (May 7 + Exam) Day 1: TBA/Catch Up/Review Thursday, May 10, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Exam 2 Some Additional Author Links (In Order of Appearance) Bartolome de las Casas (1474-1566) Texts Online
The...Relation
of the Devestation of the Indies (Gutenberg)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1558) A
Map of His Journey (Wikimedia)
Cabeza de Vaca's American Trail Cabeza de Vaca Site (with e-texts) (Texas State) Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) Texts Online
Other Links
Mary Antin (1881-1949) Texts Online
The Promised Land More Links Anzia Yezierska (c. 1881-1970) More Links Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) "Seventeen Syllables"
Japanese Flower Cards (Wikipedia)
"Red Sails in the Sunset" (and Sung by Nat King Cole) "Fred Allen" (More Here and Here and Here) "The Good Ship Lollipop" (and Sung by Shirley Temple) "Rudy Vallee" (@Archive.org) "If I Didn't Care" (by The Ink Spots) (Ink Spots @Archive.org) "Hiroshige" Luis Valdez (b. 1940) Zoot Suit
Zoot Suit: The Documentary (Doc. by MCAET)
Zoot Suit Riots (PBS/American Experience) Links from PBS on Zoot Suit Culture (PBS/American Exp.) Other Links Local Legends: Luis Valdez (1 Hr. Documentary by MCAET)
"Necessary Theatre: Luis Valdez" (2008 Interview at UCSD) Calo/Chicano Slang (Wikipedia) | ||
