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Disorienting The Vietnam War: Gb Tran’S Vietnamerica As Transnational And Transhistorical Graphic Memoir, Caroline Kyungah Hong

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

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

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Remapping Chinatown On The Diagonal: Frances Chung’S Crazy Melon, Anastasia Wright Turner

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

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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

Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science

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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).

First-Year Library Mentorship Opportunities, Crystal Goldman

Faculty and Staff Publications

The first-year experience at any university library sets the foundation for the future relationship between the new faculty member and the library as a whole. Not only is the librarian being acculturated to the organization, but he or she must decide if the library and university will provide a supportive environment for his or her career goals. In this probationary process, the tenured librarians evaluate their tenure-track colleagues’ professional progression and merit.

Many libraries institute a formal first-year mentoring program in order to facilitate the immersion of new faculty members into the organizational culture of the library and university. There …

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.

Dread Scott, Danielle Siembieda

SWITCH

In October 2008, artist Dread Scott talked to San José State University students about his artwork, including his series on Hurricane Katrina titled “Never Forget, Never Forgive: They Left Us to Die.” The accompanying video is unavailable.

A Mexicano's American Dream/El Sueno Americano De Un Mexicano, Gil Villagran

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

As I marched on May Day with thousands of others in support of a humane reform of our nation’s immigration laws, I thought about the vast diversity of all who marched from East San Jose to our new downtown city hall.  Though most marchers were Latinos, there were also people of European ancestry, Muslims, Asians, Pacific Islanders,  and African-Americans.  The languages I recognized were Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and some that I could not guess.  There were families with babies in strollers, toddlers carried on parents’ arms, teens with I-pods, young men and women, workers with union signs, …

Steinbeck Newsletter Fall 2002, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Fall 2002. Includes: Deadly Kids, Stinking Dogs, and Heros: The Best Laid Plans in Steinbeck's OF Mice nad Men / Louis Owens; Remembering Louis Owens / Robert DeMott; Naked Writing: John Steinbeck's Unpublished Manuscript The Kittens and the Curtain / Chris Fink

Steinbeck Newsletter Fall 2001, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Fall 2001. Includes: Revisiting the Sea of Cortez: The Mystery of Cayo Islet / Andromeda Romano-Lax; A Counrty Gone Back to Forest: In Search of John Steinbeck's Maine / Steven B. Rogers; Ways Out of the Waste Land: Steinbeck and Modernism, Or Lighting out for the Twenty-First Century Ahead of the Rest / Louis Owens; Last Days of the Pilchard / Al Aagard

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 2001, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 2001. Includes: Two Fishes with One Hook: The Ecological Perspectives of John Steinbeck and Joseph Mathews / Louis Owens; Steinbeck and Kaufman at Cherchez La Farm / Don Swain; A Study of the Symbolism of the Name Rose of Sharon / Ikuko Kawata

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 2000, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 2000. Includes: Fifty-Thousand Dollars Worth of Jelly Beans / Philip Benson; Steinbeck and Ernie Pyle: Reporting War in Europe / Robert and Katharine Morsberger; Staging Steinbeck: Building To a God Unknown / Kay Bosse; Romancing the Road: John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley / Ronald Primeau

Steinbeck Newsletter Spring 1999, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Spring 1999. Includes: Right Newar Sallisaw / Arthur Krim; Cannery Row: Passageway in the Heart / John Ditsky; The Form of the New: Pragmatists Literary Ecology and The Log From the Sea of Cortez / Neil Browne

Steinbeck Newsletter Fall 1997, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Fall 1997. Includes: Thinking Back / Joseph Bragdon; On Long Island, In Sag Harbor / Susan Shillinglaw; Steinbeck's Transfigured Night: A Note / John Ditsky; The Chinese Translation of The Grapes of Wrath / Zuoya Cao

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1998, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1998. Includes: Steinbeck and Harold Bell Wright: A Few Parallel Occurrences / Christine Rucklin-Banderier; Creating Community: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty / Patrick K. Dooley; Salinas Opens National Steinbeck Center / Susan Shillinglaw

Steinbeck Newsletter Spring 1997, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Spring 1997. Includes: The Geoecology of Steinbeck Country / James C. Kelley; I Kind of like Caleb: Naming in East of Eden / John Ditsky; Steinbeck and the Philosophical Joad / Christine Rucklin-Banderier

Steinbeck Newsletter Spring 1996, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Spring 1996. Includes: The Redefining of Self in the Gradual Flux: An Existentialist Reading of In Dubious Battle / Chris Kocela; Fremasonry and the Steinbeck Family / Maurice Dunbar; growing up on Cannery Row, part II / Helvetia Schwab as told to Bonnie Gartshore

Steinbeck Newsletter Fall 1995, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Fall 1995. Includes: Cannery Row Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. The God in the Pipes: An Early Version of Cannery Row / Roy Simmonds; Edward Flanders Ricketts: Four Perspectives / Nancy Ricketts; Interview with Peter Stackpole; Photographer, July 1975 / Martha Heasley Cox

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter-Spring 1995, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter-Spring 1995. Includes: Of Mice and Men: Steinbeck's Speculations on Manhood / Leland S. Person Jr.; Frank Norris and John Steinbeck: The Critical Reception of Naturalistic Art / Jesse Crisler

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1994, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1994. Includes: Fruchte de Zorns: The Grapes of Wrath in wartime Germany / Arthur Krim; Sturges and The Grapes of Wrath / Kevin Hearle; Burning Bright Burns Brightly as an Opera / Robert Morsberger

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 1994, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 1994. Includes: Steinbeck's other family: New light on East of Eden / Robert DeMott; Steinbeck on Politics, Part2 / Murray J. Smith

San José Studies, Fall 1993, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 19, Issue 3

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1993, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1993. Includes: A juvenile classic follows the Grapes of Wrath / Anne Loftis; Pu-raise Gawd fur Vittory, Granma as Prophet / John Ditsky

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 1993, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 1993. Includes: Literary Machismo: Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway / John Kenny Crane; Steinbeck in Sag Harbor: A personal Memory / Lawrence J. Epstein

Steinbeck Newsletter Spring 1992, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Spring 1992. Includes: Scratching the Mirror: John Steinbeck and the Cadbury Legend / Ronald Maggiano; John Steinbeck on the Novel: a 1954 interview / Robert DeMott; Steinbeck on Politics / Murry J. Smith

San José Studies, Winter 1992, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 18, Issue 1

Steinbeck Newsletter Winter 1991, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Winter 1991. Includes: Elmer Hader and the Grapes of Wrath book jacket / Arthur Krim; Hemingway Scholars visit the USSR / Bernice Kert; Mac and Ava Motion Picture Productions / Susan Shillinglaw

Steinbeck Newsletter Summer 1991, San Jose State University

Center for Steinbeck Studies Newsletter

Summer 1990. Includes: Eric H. Thomsen and John Steinbeck / Alice Barnard Thomsen; Staging Steinbeck: Dramatizing The Grapes of Wrath by Peter Whitebrook / review by Lee Richard Hayman.