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Skip to contentDepartment of EnglishMenu Close Search Undergraduate ProgramMFA in Creative WritingPhD in English & American LiteratureResearchStudent ResourcesOur PeopleLet your curiosity lead the way:Apply TodayHomeCoursesUpcoming EventsRecent NewsThe SpectacleContact Us Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&S Topics in Asian American Literature: Identity and Self-image ENGLISH LITERATURE 308 What's queer about "Asian America"? All too often, queerness typifies signs of injury and victimization for this racial formation (e.g., emasculation, feminization, hypersexualization). Historically, the legal and symbolic parameters for who counts as an American were fortified against the Asian alien as a threatening racial Other. Cultural discourses invoked notions of deviant genders and perverse sexualities as proof that Asian/Americans are unassimilable to the heteronormative domestic ideals of the nation. Since these depictions substantiated exclusionary policies, Asian Americans often unwittingly refute queerness in order to make claims to national belonging. Yet, this strategy effectively marginalizes LGBTQ groups among Asian American communities and further stigmatizes non-normative genders and sexualities. Countering these tendencies, David Eng and Alice Hom postulated "queer Asian American Studies" in their influential 1998 collection Q&A, arguing that we must be "unwilling to bifurcate our identities into the racial and the sexual." Likewise, we've witnessed a proliferation of Asian American creative works with LGBTQ protagonists that center the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality. Among such artists, this course may include readings by Maxine Hong Kingston, SJ Sindu, Kai Cheng Thom, Anthony Veasna So, and Ocean Vuong. Guided by the theoretical insights of these literary texts and scholarly writings, we will approach queerness not as an identity category, but rather as a critical paradigm that elucidates and interrogates the inequities of citizenship. Moreover, we'll explore how Asian American literatures envision queerness as a creative force for activating convivial practices, desires, and socialities that exceed disciplinary norms of the nation-state. This course may fulfill the global or minority literatures requirement for students who declare an English major in the fall 2021 semester and beyond. This course fulfills the 20th Century h Course Attributes: BU Hum; AS HUM; AS SD I; FA HUM; EL TC; EL GML; AR HUM; EN H Section 01Topics in Asian American Literature: Identity and Self-image INSTRUCTOR: EngM-W---- 11:30 AM | 0228 106 View Course Listing - SP2023 Quick LinksNewsEventsOur PeopleFaculty BookshelfDepartment AwardsResourcesContactAdditional information Arts & Sciences Graduate Studies in A&SCopyright 2024 by:Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. LouisFollow Us Facebook Twitter Contact Us: Department of English [email protected] Visit the main Washington University in St. Louis website1 Brookings Drive / St. Louis, MO 63130 / wustl.edu