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Asian American Literature I

Session 1 - Saturday 8:15-9:45am
Eiben Hall 207
Presiding Officer: 
Regina Yung Lee
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed