Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour
Catalog page 434
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 contentious within Asian American women’s writings. Examines films to see how such women filmmakers contend with memory, gender, and identity. Cross-listed with MCS 123 and SEAS 175. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.