In this research paper, you will use integrative scholarship to analyze the representation of Persian-Americans in Firoozeh Dumas’ Funny in Farsi and Adree Dubus III’s House of Sand and Fog. The Integrative Scholarship SLO for this assignment is below:
3. Students will practice Integrative learning which is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus. (GE 6 Integrative Scholarship – Unlinked Course)Preview the document
Funny in Farsi and House of Sand and Fog are contemporary accounts of how Persian-Americans, specifically Iranian-Americans, migrated to the United States during a period of political upheaval and came to settle in California.
While Dumas’ novel is a humorous account of how her extended family adapts to life in Southern California, Dubus’ novel is a tragic account of how an ex-Iranian military official eventually loses everything of value to him, including his house and his family.
