 | EL132, American Immigrant Literature 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) **Readings / Reading Links** Week 1, Day 1 (Wednesday) "Jennifer 8. Lee Hunts for General Tso" (TED talks) Week 1, Day 2 "Remarks Concering the Savages of North America" (Franklin) + Gardner, Chapter 1 Week 2, Day 1 (Monday) Excerpt from The Relation (Cabeza de Vaca) Excerpt from "A Brief Account of the Devestation of the Indies" (de las Casas) Week 2, Day 2 "No Name Woman" (Maxine Hong Kingston) + Gardner, Chapter 4 Week 2, Day 3: Guided Writing Day Week 3, Day 1 "Oread" (H.D.) "Buffalo Bill's..." (E.E. Cummings) "The Magnificent Seven" (The Clash, YouTube) "The Magnificent Seven" (The Lyrics, More or Less) "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" (S. Alexie)"Ducks" (Naomi Shihab Nye) + Gardner, Chapter 5 Week 3, Day 3 "My Father and the Figtree" (Naomi Shihab Nye) "For My Father" (Janice Mirikitani, available via Bb) "Refugee Ship" (Lorna Dee Cervantes, available via Bb) Week 4, Day 1 "Persimmons" (Li-Young Lee, available via Bb) Week 4, Day 2 "Puerto Rican Obituary" (Pedro Pietri, available via Bb) Week 4, Day 3: Guided Writing Day Week 5, Day 1 Bonus Links: "There are No Cats in America" (from An American Tail) Visualizing Immigration (Flawed but Interesting) Week 5, Day 2 "An English-Chinese Phrase Book" (Wong Sam, via Bb) "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of a Eurasian" (EM Eaton, Bb) "In the Land of the Free" (Edith Maude Eaton, via Bb) Week 5, Day 3 The Promised Land, Chapter 1 (Mary Antin, at Link or via Bb) The Promised Land, Chapter 9 (Mary Antin, at Link or via Bb) "America and I" (Anzia Yezierska) (via Bb) Week 6, Day 1 1st half of Yekl (Chapters 1-5) Week 6, Day 2 2nd half of Yekl (The Rest of the Novella) Week 6, Day 3 Week 7: No No Boy Week 8, Day 1 "Seventeen Syllables" (Hisaye Yamamoto) Week 8, Day 2 "In the American Society" (Gish Jen) Week 8, Day 3 No Class Week 9, Day 1 No Class Week 9, Day 2 Guided Writing Week 9, Day 3 "The Politics of Recognition" parts 1-3 (Charles Taylor) Week 10, Day 1 "The Politics of Recognition" to end (Charles Taylor) Week 10, Day 2 Guided Writing Week 10, Day 3 Trying to Find Chinatown (David Henry Hwang) + Gardner, Chapter 6 Week 11, Day 1 F.O.B. (Act I) (David Henry Hwang) Week 11, Day 2 F.O.B. (Act II) (David Henry Hwang) Week 11, Day 3 ...Stinking Badges! (Act 1) (Luis Valdez) Week 12, Day 1 ...Stinking Badges! (Act 2) (Luis Valdez) Thanksgiving Break Turkey Week 13, Day 1 Guided Writing Day Week 13, Day 2 Zoot Suit (Act 1) (Luis Valdez) Week 13, Day 3 Zoot Suit (Act 2) (Luis Valdez) Week 14, Day 1 In-Class: View/Discuss Excerpts from Zoot Suit FIlm Night, Monday or Tuesday: Far and Away Screening Week 14, Day 2 Far and Away Discussion Week 14, Day 3 In Class: View/Discuss Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (Linked version lower quality, worse music than in-class.) Week 15, Day 1 Final Review (Final: Firday, 3:30-5:30) 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) Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952) Texts Online Other Links Mary Antin (1881-1949) Texts Online The Promised Land (U Penn) Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921) "Seventeen Syllables" "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) I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! Email Dr. Johnson Syllabus and Schedule available under "Course Dcouments" in Blackboard. |
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