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Review: Bury What We Cannot Take By Kirstin Chen, Noelle Brada-Williams
Review: Bury What We Cannot Take By Kirstin Chen, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Review: The Incendiaries By R.O. Kwon, Jessie Fussell
Review: The Incendiaries By R.O. Kwon, Jessie Fussell
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A book review of R.O. Kwon's 2018 debut novel, The Incendiaries.
Introduction To Volume Nine: Homecoming, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Nine: Homecoming, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Making (Non)Sense: On Ruth Ozeki's A Tale For The Time Being, Yana Ya-Chu Chang
Making (Non)Sense: On Ruth Ozeki's A Tale For The Time Being, Yana Ya-Chu Chang
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
This essay investigates the knowledge produced around Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being through a discussion of its marketing processes and its reception, as well as through textual analysis. I first draw upon Sau-ling Wong’s observations about the problem of a US-centric referential framework in the internationalization of Asian American studies to examine a Western-centric framing in the marketing strategies of the US/Canada and the UK editions of Ozeki’s novel. Next, I turn to an examination of how reviews and selected readers’ responses to Ozeki’s novel show an at-times incoherent process of making sense of this …
Mobilizing The Vietnamese Body: Dance Theory, Critical Refugee Studies, And The Aftermaths Of War In Andrew X. Pham’S Catfish And Mandala, Quynh Nhu Le, Ying Zhu
Mobilizing The Vietnamese Body: Dance Theory, Critical Refugee Studies, And The Aftermaths Of War In Andrew X. Pham’S Catfish And Mandala, Quynh Nhu Le, Ying Zhu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
Mobilizing the Vietnamese Body: Dance Theory, Critical Refugee Studies, and the Aftermaths of War in Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Mandala
Through analysis of Andrew X. Pham’s Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam, this collaboration between a literary scholar and dance scholar joins methodologies from their respective fields to explore the politicized dimensions of the Vietnamese body-in-motion. Published in 1999, Pham's memoir documents his journey, as a Vietnamese refugee living in the U.S., as he travels throughout Vietnam on a bicycle. We argue that through the literal and theoretical mobilization of his …
Integration Of Local Poetic Voices: An Interview With Lawson Fusao Inada, Alma Rosa Alvarez, John Rafael Almaguer
Integration Of Local Poetic Voices: An Interview With Lawson Fusao Inada, Alma Rosa Alvarez, John Rafael Almaguer
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
An interview with Lawson Fusoa Inada
Viet Thanh Nguyen In Conversation With Andrew Lam
Viet Thanh Nguyen In Conversation With Andrew Lam
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Cover Of Volume 9, Sung Yu
Cover Of Volume 9, Sung Yu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Review: A River Of Stars By Vanessa Hua, Olivia Lee
Review: A River Of Stars By Vanessa Hua, Olivia Lee
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A review of Vanessa Hua's 2018 novel, A River of Stars.