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English 381/AC 324 Syllabus Winter 2002 Najita Times: M, W 1-2:30 Room: G251 Angell Telephone: 764-6345 Receptionist: 764-6330 Office Hours: Tues. 4-6 pm Office: Angell 4184 Mailbox: Angell 3161 Course Objectives
As its
literature attests, Hawai’i is simultaneously the uniquely multicultural
fiftieth state of the Union, a colonial outpost, and the disputed sovereign
nation of native Hawaiians. As might be
expected, the literature of Hawai’i is a highly contested terrain ranging from
works by native Hawaiian writers, “local” writers, and works by
“foreigners.” This course allows
students to read and study the literary and oral traditions of Hawai’i,
including works by writers of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Korean descent,
through competing paradigms which attempt to place Hawai’i’s literatures and
cultures within the historical, social, and political contexts of western
imperial expansion, globalization, Asian American literature, and the native
Hawaiian movement toward cultural autonomy and self-determination. This course will examine the ways in which
the literatures of Hawai’i have been and can be read through these frameworks
as well as how they also problematize and contest these categories. We will read Melville, London and Twain and
look at how Hawaiian and “local” writers such as Balaz, Holt, Trask, Murayama,
Pak, Yamanaka, and Cobb Keller respond to European and American representations
of Hawai’i and its people. The course
will also include key texts from “mainland” Asian American literature such as
those by Bulosan, Hagedorn, and Mori which serve to provide contrast and comparison with the literatures of
Hawai’i. Requirements include midterm
and final exams, one 5-7 page paper, one 7-8 page paper. Required
Texts
Reader –
available at Accucopy Reader,
pt. 2 – Accucopy (Holt’s Waimea Summer) Herman
Melville, Typee Milton
Murayama, All I Asking for Is My Body Lum and Chock. The Best of Bamboo
Ridge Lois-Ann
Yamanaka, Blu’s Hanging Yamanaka, Saturday
Night at the Pahala Theater Gary Pak, The
Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories Rodney
Morales, Speed of Darkness Toshio
Mori, Yokohama California Carlos
Bulosan, America Is in the Heart Jessica
Hagedorn, Dogeaters Nora Cobb
Keller, Comfort Woman (Texts available at Shaman Drum) Course
Requirements
This
course requires that students read the assigned material prior to the scheduled
class period and that students be prepared and active participants in
discussion. Class participation and
regular attendance are central aspects of this course. As such, 5 absences constitutes a failing
grade for the course. Written Assignments All
written assignments should be of the correct length, TYPED, double-spaced, with
conventional 1-in margins on all sides.
Acceptable fonts include Courier 10 or Times 12. Citations of secondary sources must follow
MLA format. Late Paper Policy Grades for late papers will be reduced a
letter grade for each day past the due date.
For example, if the paper’s initial grade was a B and it was turned in
one day after the deadline, the final grade will be a C. (Note: Saturday and Sunday count as two
days.) If you are ill and cannot
complete an assignment on time, notify me on or before the due date and provide
a doctor’s note when you turn in your paper.
In fairness to other students, in-class quizzes may not be made up at a
later date. You must be in class in
order to receive credit for taking a quiz.
All
contestations of grades (whether for a specific paper, exam, or the course as a
whole) must be done in writing (no emails accepted). If you are finding yourself in need of extra guidance in
improving your future papers, please visit my office hours. However, if you feel that your concern is
reconsideration of your grade for a paper or exam, you must state your case in
writing which means outlining in a clear and objective manner what you feel has
been overlooked in the assessment of your work. After you have placed your paper and its written request in my
mailbox or in my possession, I will contact you. Getting Help with Written Assignments
For conceptual issues with
developing your topic towards a paper, I encourage you to visit my office hours
or make an appointment to discuss your paper with me. For help with clarity or the mechanics of writing, I encourage
you to visit the Sweetland Writing Center where you may meet with either peer
tutors or writing center faculty. Peer
tutors are available on a walk-in basis Sunday-Thursday evenings from 7 to 11
pm and may be found in the computer classroom adjacent to the Angell Hall
Computing Site. If you prefer to make
an appointment and meet with a writing center faculty member, call or stop in
at the center’s Writing Workshop located in 1139 Angell Hall. 764-0429.
Note on Plagiarism
The use of
work which is not your own without bibliographic citation constitutes
plagiarism. This definition extends to
written work or sources found on the internet.
Plagiarism is academic theft and can result in expulsion from the
university. If you wish to use the
ideas or words of others, be sure to attribute them to their written source
through the use of the MLA Style format which can be found in The MLA Style
Manual. SCHEDULE OF READINGS
Jan 7 Mon Introduction
to the Course Jan 9 Wed
Introductory
lecture: historical context and competing paradigms
Herman Melville. Herman Melville. Typee
(ch. 1-13). Sumida, Stephen H. "Sense of Place, History, and the
Concept of the 'Local' in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures” EuroAmerican Representations
Jan 14 Mon
Typee continued Paul
Lyons. “Fear, Perception, and the
‘Seen’ of Cannibalism . . .” Jan 16 Wed
“Introduction”
to A Hawaii Reader Mark
Twain. Letters from Hawaii
(excerpts) “Act of
War” - viewing Jan 21 Mon MARTIN
LUTHER KING, JR. DAY – No class
Native Hawaiian
Renaissance: Legacies of Contact and Colonialism
Jan 23 Wed
John
Dominis Holt. Waimea Summer
(Reader pt. II) Lilikala
Kame’eleihiwa. Native Land, Foreign
Desires, ch. 2 “Explorations
of Captain James Cook…” (excerpts) Jan 28 Mon
Waimea
Summer continued “On Being
Hawaiian” Kame’eleihiwa. Native Land, Foreign Desires, ch. 8,
10 Jan 30 Wed Hawaian
Homes Commission Act of 1920
Michael
McPherson. “Quiet Title,” “Up Mauka”
and “The Waking Stone” Pidgin:
Language, Colonialism and the Emergence of Local Literature
Feb 4 Mon
Darrell H.Y. Lum. “Local Literature and Lunch” (BBR 3) Darrell H.Y. Lum. “Paint” (BBR 189) Eric Chock. “Tutu on the Curb” (BBR 24) Diane Kahanu. “Ho. Just Cause I speak
Pidgin No Mean I Dumb” (BBR 43) Joseph
Puna Balaz. “Electric Laulau” (in
class) Plantation
Colonialism and Early Local Literature
Feb 6 Wed
Milton Murayama. All I Asking for Is My Body Milton Murayama. “Problems of Writing in Dialect and Mixed Languages” Ed Beechert Working in Hawaii, ch. 2,
3 Feb 11 Mon
Murayama continued Sumida.
“Hawaii’s Complex Idyll” Feb 13 Wed
Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater Candace Fujikane. “Reimagining Development and the Local . . .” Feb 18 Mon
Yamanaka.
Blu’s Hanging Jamie James. “This Hawaii Is Not for Tourists.” Fujikane. “Sweeping Racism under the Rug of
‘Censorship’” Feb 20 Wed
Yamanaka continued MIDTERMFeb 23 – Mar 3
SPRING BREAK
Militourism:
Haolewood and Militarism
Mar 4 Mon
South Pacific
– viewing Rob Wilson “Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann
Yamanaka…” Mar 6 Wed
Teresia Teaiwa. “Militourism” article Eric Chock.
“Poem for George Helm…” Haunani-Kay Trask. “Hawaii,” “Waikiki,” and “Colonization” Puanani Burgess. “Hawai’i Pono’i.” Cynthia Enloe. “On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism.” FIRST PAPER DUE “Local”
Community Struggles and Subaltern History
Mar 11 Mon
Gary Pak.
Watcher of Waipuna and Other Stories Mar 13 Wed
Pak continued Darrell Lum.
“Paint” (BBR 189) Hawaiian
Land Struggles: Kaho’olawe
Mar 18 Mon
Rodney Morales. Speed of Darkness Excerpts from Ho’i Ho’i Hou Mar 20 Wed
Richard Hamasaki. poems for PKO Kathy Banggo. “No Mindless Digging” “Troubled Paradise” Asian American
Subaltern History
Mar 25 Mon
Toshio Mori.
Yokohama California Hisaye Yamamoto. “The High-Heeled Shoes: A Memoir” Mar 27 Wed: AJA
Internment Newspapers
guest lecturer Filipino
American Experience: Abroad and at “home”
Apr 1 Mon
Carlos Bulosan. America Is in the Heart. Apr 3 Wed Bulosan continued Oscar Campomanes. “Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile” Apr 8 Mon Jessica Hagedorn. Dogeaters. Apr 10 Wed Hagedorn continued Lisa Lowe.
“Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification…” International
Connections & Asian Pacific America
Apr 15 Mon Nora Cobb Keller. Comfort Woman. guest lecturer Apr 17 Wed Keller continued Final Paper due
FINAL EXAM:
Monday, April 22, 4-6 pm
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