ONLINE! The Divided Self: Cross-Cultural Identities in Two Contemporary Asian-American Writers
Code: LH41055
Dates: April 8 - May 13, 2021
Meets: 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM
Sessions: 6
Course Fee: $86.00
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NEW The quest for one’s identity is a perennial theme in literature. We all struggle to find ourselves; we all ask “who am I”? This question is a particularly arduous and ambiguous one for those born into a culture that is different from that of their parents. Our course will focus on the challenges encountered by a Chinese girl and an Indian boy--in Maxine Hong Kington's Woman Warrior (1976), and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake (2003)--as they struggle to reconcile their Chinese and Indian cultural heritages with their emerging sense of self as an Americans.
Olive Ledlie
Olive Ledlie, PhD, Former Chair English Department, The Baldwin SchoolN/A
