ENG 204 — Asian American Literature
This course examines the achievements of Asian American writers, exploring ways in which they represent community, class, nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and culture, and analyzing recurrent themes such as identity, generational conflict, assimilation, panethnicity, and intra-Asian relations. Literary works written in English by Maxine Hong Kingston, Carlos Bulosan, Khaled Hosseini, David Henry Hwang, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Viet Nguyen, John Okada, among others, might be studied.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in it's Diversity