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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Review Of Pioneer Girl, By Bich Minh Nguyen, Quan-Manh Ha
Review Of Pioneer Girl, By Bich Minh Nguyen, Quan-Manh Ha
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Fictional And Fragmented Truths In Korean Adoptee Life Writing, Jenny Heijun Wills
Fictional And Fragmented Truths In Korean Adoptee Life Writing, Jenny Heijun Wills
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
This article explores the ways that life writing allows transnational, transracial Asian adoptee authors to navigate their complex experiences of truth and authenticity. It also addresses the transformations adoptee authors make to the memoir genre in order to accommodate the particularities of their experiences. I analyze Jane Jeong Trenka’s foundational Asian adoption memoir, The Language of Blood, and Kim Sunée’s lesser-known text, Trail of Crumbs, paying attention to the ways that the authors’ hybridized and deliberately constructionist approaches to genre parallel some of the identity issues that are brought out in their respective books. I explore the significance …
“’Chinese Don’T Drink Coffee!’”: Coffee And Class Liminality In Elaine Mar’S Paper Daughter, Christian Aguiar
“’Chinese Don’T Drink Coffee!’”: Coffee And Class Liminality In Elaine Mar’S Paper Daughter, Christian Aguiar
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
This article offers a reading of the foodservice spaces in Elaine Mar’s memoir Paper Daughter in order to suggest changes in the way we think about class liminality. It argues that by focusing not just on the way the socially-mobile narrator experiences liminality, but also on the ways her working-class parents and co-workers experience it, we can begin to consider some of the complexities and nuances the idea of the liminal offers. In so doing, the article suggests a slightly new approach to thinking about and teaching Paper Daughter.
From Raw To Cooked: Amy Tan’S “Fish Cheeks” Through A Lévi-Straussian Lens, Susan K. Kevra
From Raw To Cooked: Amy Tan’S “Fish Cheeks” Through A Lévi-Straussian Lens, Susan K. Kevra
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
In "Fish Cheeks" a scant 500 words short story, Amy Tan serves up a coming of age story about an Asian American teenage girl. Tan’s setting of Christmas for a traditional Chinese dinner, shared with the American boy on whom the protagonist, Amy, has a crush, emphasizes the girl’s dual identity as an Asian American, a reality she is confronting head on. Forced to see her family traditions through the eyes of a white, Christian boy, she finds those traditions distasteful. Rather than delighting in the dishes her mother has lovingly prepared, she is revolted by them, fixated instead on …
The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, And Chinatown In Sui Sin Far’S “‘Its Wavering Image’”, Caroline Porter
The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, And Chinatown In Sui Sin Far’S “‘Its Wavering Image’”, Caroline Porter
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
Drawing upon Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, this article offers an interpretation of “‘Its Wavering Image’” that explains the biracial main character, Pan’s, process of racialization. The argument is two fold: first, the paper contends that in this story, Sui Sin Far theorizes that race is performative rather than biological. Race does not come from characters’ bodies, but is rather an incorporated performance of codes. Pan’s race, then, depends not on her parentage or her biology, but on the “codes” she internalizes and embodies, codes that are fleshed out throughout the article through historical contextualization of San Francisco and Chinatown. …
A “Monstress” Undertaking: An Interview With Lysley Tenorio, Noelle Brada-Williams
A “Monstress” Undertaking: An Interview With Lysley Tenorio, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Introduction To Volume Six: An Identity Rebus, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Six: An Identity Rebus, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Volume 6 Cover, Mark P. Brada
Volume 6 Cover, Mark P. Brada
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Introduction: On Contemporary Asian American Literature And Popular Visual Culture, Pamela Thoma
Introduction: On Contemporary Asian American Literature And Popular Visual Culture, Pamela Thoma
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Remapping Chinatown On The Diagonal: Frances Chung’S Crazy Melon, Anastasia Wright Turner
Remapping Chinatown On The Diagonal: Frances Chung’S Crazy Melon, Anastasia Wright Turner
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Disorienting The Vietnam War: Gb Tran’S Vietnamerica As Transnational And Transhistorical Graphic Memoir, Caroline Kyungah Hong
Disorienting The Vietnam War: Gb Tran’S Vietnamerica As Transnational And Transhistorical Graphic Memoir, Caroline Kyungah Hong
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
Graphic Self-Consciousness, Travel Narratives, And The Asian American Studies Classroom: Delisle’S Burma Chronicles And Guibert, Lefèvre, And Lemercier’S The Photographer, Monica Chiu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Teaching With Collaborative Writing Projects: Creating An Online Reader’S Guide To Karen Tei Yamashita’S I Hotel, Grace Talusan
Teaching With Collaborative Writing Projects: Creating An Online Reader’S Guide To Karen Tei Yamashita’S I Hotel, Grace Talusan
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
“Capturing The Spirit”: Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita’S I Hotel, Lai Ying Yu
“Capturing The Spirit”: Teaching Karen Tei Yamashita’S I Hotel, Lai Ying Yu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
No abstract provided.
How The West Was Lost, Ashish Chand
How The West Was Lost, Ashish Chand
Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science
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Review Of Capote’S In Cold Blood, Yevgeniy Mayba
Review Of Capote’S In Cold Blood, Yevgeniy Mayba
Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science
No abstract provided.
A Psychoanalytical Approach To Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Wenying Xu
A Psychoanalytical Approach To Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Wenying Xu
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
Racial minorities in the U.S. are often tormented by the tension between the corporeal and the ontological, with the former experienced as confining and the latter expansive. Such ambivalence often expresses itself in one's relationship with food. Here I propose to illustrate how Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory on desire can assist us in understanding ethnicity as a bodily performance, which I venture to call an embodied ontology, applying this concept to Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's Dinner (2007).
Twenty Years After Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest: An Interview With Karen Tei Yamashita, Noelle Brada-Williams
Twenty Years After Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest: An Interview With Karen Tei Yamashita, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
A brief interview in which Yamashita discusses her work which has spanned twenty years and three continents. The interview closes with her description of her newest novel, I Hotel, which brings readers back to the roots of Asian American Studies and Asian American Literature and is set during a pivotal ten-year period in Northern California.