| Week 11 (Nov.26-28): Discovering a New Continent:
Migration and Early Travel |
Reading:
Arkush and Lee, Land without Ghosts, selections Maxine Hong
Kingston, Chinaman, selections
Nov.28: Thanskgiving: no class; no section meetings this week. |
| Week 12 (Dec. 3-5): Images of Chinatown |
Reading:
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior Lisa Lowe, "Heterogeneity,
Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Difference" in Diaspora
1.1 (Spring 1991)
Dec. 10: Second paper due |
Film:
Wayne Wang's "Chan Is Missing" |
| Week 13 (Dec. 10-12): Mediating Multiple Identities:
Exile, Diaspora, and the New Immigrants |
Reading:
Leo Lee, "On the Margins of Chinese Discourse" Leo
Lee, "Trans-Chinese Sensibilities"
[On reserve] Selections from John Rajchman ed., The Identity in Question:
Joan Scott, "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity"
Cornell West, "A Matter of Life and Death" Homi Bhabha,
"Freedom's Basis in the Indeterminate" |
Film:
Ang Lee's "Wedding Banquet" |
| Week 14 (Dec. 17): Conclusion and Review |
