This research paper assignment combines the research skills that you learned in ENGL 120, specifically using databases to find sources on current social issues, and the skills that you have learned in ENGL 220 regarding analyzing literature. For this assignment, you should select, at minimum, one primary, literary source from our class (choices are listed below) and analyze it through the lens of a current social issue (possible issue ideas are listed below, but you are not limited to those). Please explain, ideally in your introduction, what inspired you to select your text of choice and your social issue topic.
In addition to the primary source of your choice from class, you are required to have a minimum of two academic sources (aka scholarly, aka peer-reviewed) from the Hunter College database or Google Scholar and a minimum of two non-academic sources, which that can include periodical and news sources; audiovisual texts, like author interviews or documentaries; and other literary texts, either from our class or outside the class; in other words, anything that isn’t academic. You must, of course, include textual evidence from your primary text of choice.
1) KAMPANICH, SAHUSSARIN. A STUDY of the POSITION of CHINESE FEMALE as PRESENTED in MAXINE HONG KINGSTON’S “NO NAME WOMAN.” 2007, http://thesis.swu.ac.th/swuthesis/Eng(M.A.)/Sahussarin_K.pdf
3) Maxine, In, and Hong Kingston’. Interpreting Silence and Voice. https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/80887/gradu03769.pdf
4) Nandi, Srima. Interpreting Silence, Articulation, and Resistance in Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, June 2016, www.academia.edu/download/53624459/51.srima-nandi.pdf
