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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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The reading and writing for this course will focus on what it means to construct a sense of self and a life narrative in relation to the larger social world of family and friends, education, media, work, and community. Readings will include nonfiction and fiction works by authors such as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Andre Dubus, Anne Frank, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Tobias Wolff, and Alice Walker. Students will explore the craft of storytelling and the multiple ways in which one can employ the tools of fiction in crafting creative nonfiction and fiction narratives.
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- ethnicity
- cultural identity
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- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
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- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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MIT students bring rich cultural backgrounds to their college experience. This course explores the splits, costs, confusions, insights, and opportunities of living in two traditions, perhaps without feeling completely at home in either. Course readings include accounts of growing up Asian-American, Hispanic, Native American, and South-East Asian-American, and of mixed race. The texts include selections from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Kesaya E. Noda's "Growing Up Asian in America," Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek, Gary Soto's "Like Mexicans," Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World, Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, the movies Smoke Signals and Mississippi Masala, Danzy Senna's Caucasia, and others. We will also use students' writings as ways to investigate our multiple identities, exploring the constraints and contributions of cultural and ethnic traditions. Students need not carry two passports in order to enroll; an interest in reading and writing about being shaped by multiple influences suffices.
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- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
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- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
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- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
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- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
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- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- dan
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- danzy senna
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- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
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- gary soto
- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
- culture
- tradition
- ethnicity
- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
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- sherman alexie
- jhumpa lahiri
- danzy senna
- identity
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- cultural identity
- intercultural experience
- maxine hong kingston
- kesaya noda
- gary soto
- sherman alexie
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- dan
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