9/1 Introductions, brainstorming, keywords research
- Homework: read The Woman Warrior, portion of Chin handout: “Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and Fake” (handout) and Wong “Autobiography as Guided Chinatown Tour? Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and the Chinese-American Autobiographical Controversy” (pdf)
- Create Blog, write Blog Post #1, comment set #1
9/8 Discuss The Woman Warrior, Chin Handout
- Homework: read Native Speaker, Lowe: “Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences;” excerpts from Chae’s “Who Consumes Multiculturalism?” (pp. 1-30)
- Blog Post #2, comment set #2
9/15 Discuss Native Speaker, Lowe, Chae
- Homework: read American Woman; introduction from Leslie Bow’s Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion; information on Japanese internment
- Blog Post #3, comment set #3
9/22 Discuss American Woman, Bow, Japanese internment
- Homework: Read All Over Creation, McHugh “Flora, Not Fauna: GM Culture and Agriculture”
- Blog Post #4, comment set #4
9/29 Discuss All Over Creation
- Homework: Read Catfish and Mandala, Read Nguyen: “Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim” (from Nguyen’s Race and Resistance)
- Blog Post #5, comment set #5
10/6 Discuss Catfish and Mandala, Nguyen
- Homework: Read Feng, “The State of Asian American Cinema” and Hillenbrand “Of Myths and Men”; basic working knowledge of Vincent Chin (see Helen Zia) •Write exploratory draft!
- Blog Post #6, comment set #6 (post initial thoughts about exploratory draft)
10/13 Exploratory Drafts DUE. View and Discuss Better Luck Tomorrow, Asian American Cinema pieces;
- Homework: Read The Book of Salt, Troeung, “A Gift or a Theft Depends on Who Is Holding the Pen,” additional resources on Stein/Toklas autobiography debate
- Blog Post #7, comment set #7
10/20 Discuss The Book of Salt, Troeung, Stein/Toklas
- Homework: prepare for conferences (send draft and working bibliography via email by Monday, 10/25)
- Blog Post #8, comment set #8 (post refined ideas about paper topic, research question)
10/27 No class meeting, conferences
- Homework: revise draft. Read Edinburgh, Eng, “Primal Scenes: Queer Childhood in ‘The Shoyu Kid’”
- Blog Post #9, comment set #9
11/3 Discuss Edinburgh, Eng
- Homework: view film (TBA)
- Blog Post #10, comment set #10
11/10—-class cancelled so you can chat with Alexander Chee on **11/11** at Frequency North!!!
11/17 Discuss Film
- Homework: FINISH PAPER!!!
- Blog Post #11, comment set #11 (emerging questions, issues, etc. in papers)
Turkeys Gone Wild: Thanksgiving Break!!!
12/1 research presentations/draft workshop
12/8 reflective essay workshop, Final Papers DUE.
12/15 pick up grades, papers
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