Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour
Catalog page 444
Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Analyzes Asian American autobiographies and films written and directed by women. Explores why the genre of autobiography is enabling and con- tentious within Asian American women’s writings. Examines films to see how such women filmmakers contend with memory, gender, and identity. Cross-list- ed with MCS 123. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.