This course will expand student’s awareness of contemporary literature written in English by Asian and Asian diasporic writers. Focusing on fiction, poetry, and films, the students will engage transnational and transcultural themes and topics, as well as issues related to creative and innovative forms of literary English. By readings and discussions of creative and critical texts, students will consider aspects of various Asian experiences and questions surrounding multiculturalism, colonialism and postcolonialism, immigration, varieties of English. Students will critically and creatively engage these texts in relation to their own disciplines and interests, with particular emphasis on connections with Hong Kong.

Continuous Assessment: 100%