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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Brigitte Scheer Brigitte Scheer

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Family Matters: The Asian American Perspective

SE 2

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To examine the works of Asian American writers who deal with families in crisis precipitated by the immigrant experience; to try to analyze the differences in the ways in which family matters to Westerners and Asians.

Short oral reports, presentation of paper, discussion.

written/oral

Mainly writers of Chinese, Japanese and Indian origin (Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, David Wong Louie, Joy Kogawa, Bharati Mukherjee et.al.)

Students must have completed their "1. Studienabschnitt"
Beginn: 9.10.2003