Asian American Literature I
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Playing with Ethnicity: Monique Truong, Nam Le, and the Asian American Story. Vincenzo Bavaro, Dartmouth College
While Truong and Le’s works build on critical issues from the Asian American cultural debate of the 1990’s, they ultimately question, and effectively explode, the very boundaries that the field established: particularly those associated with authenticity and ethnic authorship.
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變: Transformation and the Becoming-Self in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese. Regina Yung Lee, University of California, Riverside
The neg(oci)ations necessary for belonging are the central preoccupation of Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel, American Born Chinese, in which I propose that a crucial reconfiguration occurs – not of self, or of national and cultural spaces, but of the myth and methodology of belonging.
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The Eaton Sisters and the Politics of Asianess in the Progressive Era. Li-Wen Chang, Chinese Culture University
This paper aims to investigate the roles and images of the mixed-race women and their racial/sexual identity formation in the Progressive Era, with a concentration on the Eurasian women writers and the way they interweave their politics of Asianess into stories about mixed-race women.
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Made in Korea: Kinship and Family in Korean Adoptee Literature. John Bryson, University of California, Riverside
A light review of children's literature and memoirs for Korean adoptees reveal "different" narratives about family and normative kinship.
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