Diploma Seminar 340-AS1-3SEMD6

The seminar will cover ethnic discourse in the process of creating and functioning of memory, both individual and collective (in Japanese-American autobiographical ethnic narratives). Selected works will be analysed in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Testimonial literature brings out individual memories to reconstruct past events; it is also closely linked to cultural memory and, in the case of ethnic minorities, to counter-memory. The aim of the course is to prepare the student to write and defend a bachelor's thesis (through the presentation of requirements for writing a diploma thesis, preparation for formulating a research problem and the topic of the thesis, and regular meetings to discuss and correct the content of the thesis).

The seminar will cover ethnic discourse in the process of creating and functioning of memory, both individual and collective (in Japanese-American autobiographical ethnic narratives). Selected works will be analysed in their historical, social and cultural contexts. Testimonial literature brings out individual memories to reconstruct past events; it is also closely linked to cultural memory and, in the case of ethnic minorities, to counter-memory. The aim of the course is to prepare the student to write and defend a bachelor's thesis (through the presentation of requirements for writing a diploma thesis, preparation for formulating a research problem and the topic of the thesis, and regular meetings to discuss and correct the content of the thesis).

Lim G. and A. Ling (eds). Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Kim, E. H. Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
Zhang, B. “Japanese- American Literature.” In New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage, edited by A. S. Kipling, 125– 141. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Ghymn, E. M. Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Yamamoto, T. Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
Misztal, B. Theories of Social Remembering. Maidenhead and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2003.
Tsuda, T. Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland across Generations. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Shackel, P (ed). Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001.
Dubel, J. L. “Remembering a Japanese- American Concentration Camp at Manzanar National Historic Site.” In Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape, edited by P. A. Shackel, 85– 102. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Lee J (ed). Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
Wakatsuki Houston, J. and J. D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment. New York: Ember, 2012 [1973].
Uchida, Y. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- American Family. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.
Barker, Ch. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage Publications, 2004.
Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska, M. Japanese-American Literature through the Prism of Acculturation. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Lim G. and A. Ling (eds). Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Kim, E. H. Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.
Zhang, B. “Japanese- American Literature.” In New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage, edited by A. S. Kipling, 125– 141. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Ghymn, E. M. Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
Yamamoto, T. Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999.
Misztal, B. Theories of Social Remembering. Maidenhead and Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2003.
Tsuda, T. Japanese American Ethnicity: In Search of Heritage and Homeland across Generations. New York: New York University Press, 2016.
Shackel, P (ed). Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001.
Dubel, J. L. “Remembering a Japanese- American Concentration Camp at Manzanar National Historic Site.” In Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape, edited by P. A. Shackel, 85– 102. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Lee J (ed). Japanese Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2018.
Wakatsuki Houston, J. and J. D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment. New York: Ember, 2012 [1973].
Uchida, Y. Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese- American Family. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1982.
Barker, Ch. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage Publications, 2004.
Jarmołowicz-Dziekońska, M. Japanese-American Literature through the Prism of Acculturation. New York: Routledge, 2023.