Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; screening, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour
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Prerequisites: MCS 010, 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 GSST 124 and SEAS 175. See the Student Affairs Office in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for breadth requirement information.