MLA Commons | LLC Asian American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Asian American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 03de5ef2317f7195d356b986ecfc8996 Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic Job opportunity: UNC Distinguished Professor of As Am Literature in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/job-opportunity-unc-distinguished-professor-of-as-am-literature/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:11:40 -0400 The Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill invites applications for a Distinguished Professorship with a specialization in Asian American literature and related forms of cultural production. We seek a candidate in any area or subfield of Asian American literary studies with an outstanding record of research,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4aa15b3e5501c148730f06778072a524 Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies (MLA 2023) in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-new-directions-in-asian-american-literary-studies-mla-2023/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:10:13 -0500 https://mla.confex.com/mla/2023/webprogrampreliminary/Paper19560.html
New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies
This panel solicits papers from graduate students doing Asian American literary studies in pursuit of new horizons–whether innovative methodologies, frameworks, texts, or fields. Send 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 68ce42829aaa4b44841d201640fa6110 Harrod Suarez started the topic LLC Asian American Panels @ 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/llc-asian-american-panels-2022-mla-annual-convention/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 14:44:18 -0500 87V – Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions: Thursday, 6 January 2022 / 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

456V – Multilingual Asian American Newspaper Studies: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM

481V – Archipelagic Thinking in Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Narratives: Saturday, 8 January 2022 / 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

630V – Radi…[Read more]

]]> 0 0027cbda71467fac8c5a2e8f35e079d1 Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-radical-care-2/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:20:47 -0500 For MLA 2022:

How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.

]]> 0 efda4a95d4bad349d33d37f556adafa5 Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-radical-care/ Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:19:42 -0500 For MLA 2022:

How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.

]]> 0 ab00661aa77ffc3c8c66f55a48cb93a1 Harrod Suarez started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Lit (MLA 2022) in the discussion LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-archipelagic-thinking-in-asian-american-and-southeast-asian-lit-mla-2022/ Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:28:06 -0500 Dear all,

We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Literature and Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic Forums.

Please send abstract (300 words…[Read more]

]]> 0 24ccc7e8c106774ce790449c51af13a5 Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1697989/ Wed, 15 Jul 2020 19:15:29 -0400 Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today

]]> 0 42c610fc464ad9bda66e2236e19ea597 John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690087/ Sat, 06 Jun 2020 03:48:43 -0400 Does the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.

]]> 0 f1c2b724d10d3efb3d6dcce369be7e98 Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion LLC Asian American via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/asian-american-forum-cfps-for-mla-2021-convention/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 02:35:18 -0500 Dear all,

Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Jeehyun Lim

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention

Toronto, January 7-10, 2021

1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b87c3429a661ea84841e0db2a464b82 Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663740/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:28:15 -0400 The Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]

]]> 0 05ba6bf0ef4ade3ba5124211cbbbbc3a Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group LLC Asian American: CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601096/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:44:56 -0500 CFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:

Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia

What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fe7dfe76b4c3e9256bfaf286cdc45a5 James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic CFP: Transpacific Transactions in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-transpacific-transactions/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:12:49 -0500 Papers that analyze transpacific exchanges in literature from a critical perspective informed by scholarship on transnationalism, diaspora, and the Pacific. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; Jeehyun Lim (jeehyunl@buffalo.edu).

]]> 0 6d566183fe3b3f0473ba5313ed71d3ff James Kyung-Jin Lee started the topic New Approaches to Asian American Non-Fiction in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/new-approaches-to-asian-american-non-fiction/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:11:38 -0500 Papers that consider both recent and historical Asian American non-fiction with particular critical attention to the contemporary memoir boom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March 2018; James Kyung-Jin Lee (jkl@uci.edu).

]]> 0 df60516a5ad871b22fef774b1ce6f003 Lisa Zunshine deposited “'Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself': Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597199/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:08:18 -0500 How does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b3f527227c604cd2c6b58939053bc46 Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the "From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597193/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:55:25 -0500 This essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.

]]> 0 90864eb036489e42c260420d38a0572e Jeehyun Lim started the topic JNTSpecial Issue CFP: Refugee Literatures: Migration, Crisis, and the Humanities in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/jntspecial-issue-cfp-refugee-literatures-migration-crisis-and-the-humanities/ Sat, 06 Jan 2018 14:16:17 -0500 JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions exploring the life and work of refugees as they engage the humanities today. Just as the mid-twentieth century refugee crisis shaped the emergence and development of aesthetic and theoretical movements around World War II, the mass movement of displaced peoples today stems from a convergence of…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ff43e7e7c9546b56d006af00fe13cae Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Amerasian Special Issue: Arab/Americas deadline extended until September 30th in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/amerasian-special-issue-arabamericas-deadline-extended-until-september-30th/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 18:09:26 -0400 Hello everyone,

The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:

Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017

Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gua…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1bcc016e5f11b2c4db863abbc0ac3f0 Hatem Akil replied to the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/reminder-re-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum-mla-2018-cfps-2/#post-1013856 Tue, 14 Mar 2017 04:07:25 -0400 Correction to the above post.

GAAM’s CFPs are for the following panels:

Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.

Teaching Global Arab Comics in the U.S.

This panel seeks papers that address graphic narratives by/about Arabs, and how they are taught or not taught today in the US. Some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 a042551184fa81e17cd21791142ad0f0 Hatem Akil started the topic Reminder re. Global Arab and Arab American Forum MLA 2018 CFPs in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/reminder-re-global-arab-and-arab-american-forum-mla-2018-cfps-2/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:45:14 -0400 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>

Dear Friends,

Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.

Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b9f639cd1a3bd17e897b56996d99722 Cynthia Wu deposited A Comparative Analysis of Indigenous Displacement and the World War II Japanese American Internment in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564452/ Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:00:02 -0400 Article in special issue of Amerasia Journal on “Carceral States”

]]> 0 2594e05cd79223fa38ff96786eefdc31 Pamela Thoma replied to the topic MLA 2017 Sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/mla-2017-sessions-arranged-by-the-forum-in-llc-asian-american/#post-1012944 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:50:50 -0500 Thanks so much for posting these, Crystal!  What a great group of sessions. Looking forward to later today and to the other panels later in the convention!

 

]]> 0 5a40164cb1f25869c5df76e0752b0622 Crystal Parikh started the topic MLA 2017 Sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/mla-2017-sessions-arranged-by-the-forum-in-llc-asian-american/ Thu, 05 Jan 2017 12:39:04 -0500 If you’re attending the 2017 MLA convention, please check out the following sessions arranged by the Forum in LLC Asian American:

 

Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian A…[Read more]

]]> 0 947107998d491e417485e6617787d300 Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited "Mapping Los Angeles: Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, GIS, and Cartographic Pedagogy" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556545/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:12:54 -0500 Digital technology in teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita

]]> 0 3bf74788d0c9eb46d5dcffdf82f05114 Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited "Memory as Lucid Dreams: Experimenting with Yamashita's I Hotel in Shanghai, China" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556544/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:11:34 -0500 On the teaching of Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel in the People’s Republic of China

]]> 0 be89210647ce2636e1a8e52ad06250f3 Ruth Yvonne Hsu deposited "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity Training in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556543/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:10:12 -0500 On the teaching of Karen Tei Yamahita’s Brazil-Maru

]]> 0 ef15c3f85ea987946b0a9b0e45536362 Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556454/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:45:01 -0500 0 cc335e0ef36eb8fd5a8464f0c8642d6d Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556452/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:42:25 -0500 0 147ee49d072685cface7e45ea445f732 Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556451/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:42:21 -0500 0 93c0f387c28c19409583f3213f40e0f6 Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556450/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:41:22 -0500 0 de4d2a7630d95b14bb28474739db6754 Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556449/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:40:55 -0500 0 b9cf926603f126ce69e49609dc5105e1 Ruth Yvonne Hsu created the doc MLA 142: "The Multiple Racial Subjects of Japanese Immigrants: Brazil-Maru and Diversity in Japan" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556448/ Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:40:42 -0500 0 3cf2bfc2bcb28c121498cc578c10d886 Crystal Parikh started the topic The MLA and the boycott of Israeli academic institutions in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/the-mla-and-the-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/ Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:50:43 -0500 <div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc46c7b57fca95e1c551ac509120c129 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2017-forum-delegate-election-4/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:00:32 -0400 This forum will need to elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, but it is required to nominate at l…[Read more]

]]> 0 01743cdab54c09df710f5d0c2ccbd8a7 Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic Heidi Kim candidate statement for Executive Committee, AAL Forum in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/heidi-kim-candidate-statement-for-executive-committee-aal-forum/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:58:30 -0400 As a member of the executive committee of the Asian American Literature Forum, my hope would be to use the wide audience of MLA as a showcase and an educational opportunity about advancements in the field. Asian American studies’ numerous directions, which have caused a lot of self-examinations within the field, offer us a unique opportunity to…[Read more]

]]> 0 63c73e2c9995a37ed69cb7e28030a36f Gregory Fenton started the topic CFP: ACLA 2017 - Deadline Today, Sept 23 in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfp-acla-2017-deadline-today-sept-23/ Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:53:45 -0400 I’m co-organizing a seminar on Asian American and Asian Canadian topics for next year’s ACLA meeting in Utrecht. I’m sure that the conversations we are envisioning would be of interest to members of this forum! My apologies for a last minute posting, but if you have an abstract ready to submit, the ACLA website will accept proposals to our seminar…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5f9b175fe6069b93a1af0df08b64fbc Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic Reminder: MLA book -- Teaching Yamashita in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/reminder-mla-book-teaching-yamashita/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 05:05:29 -0400 Please complete the survey and propose an essay (submit an abstract) by 1 June 2016 at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/mlasurvey_yamashita. While the co-editors are excited to add another title devoted to Asian American literature to the MLA Teaching World Literatures series, we enthusiastically welcome all input: from those who have taught a singl…[Read more]

]]> 0 96b6aa06ae13700009a9caf67cf71ec9 Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546256/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:48:23 -0400 This essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]

]]> 0 d283be92a23d8cb60eeee1a78f437065 Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/petition-for-southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic-2/#post-10873 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:55:43 -0400 I enthusiastically support the formation of this forum.

Charlotte Eubanks

]]> 0 04fa6692f460b5e2b8f42e9710c999e5 Crystal Parikh started the topic Remdiner, Due Today: CFPs for the 2017 MLA, LLC Asian American in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/remdiner-due-today-cfps-for-the-2017-mla-llc-asian-american/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 12:56:52 -0400 The Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!

1. Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Forum: LLC Asian American
Papers on pedagogical practices and concerns in teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita. 250…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfb2164b1692aad0f40f1744163cfe2e Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/petition-for-southeast-asian-and-southeast-asian-diasporic-2/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 03:07:34 -0500 Please sign the petition to help establish a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum.

]]> 0 605d163d6632ca090600919a25d779c7 Crystal Parikh started the topic CFPs for the 2017 MLA: LLC Asian American Forum in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/cfps-for-the-2017-mla-llc-asian-american-forum/ Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:08:40 -0500 The Forum in Asian American Literature has posted four CFPs for the 2017 MLA. Please consider whether you might have a paper that fits one!

1.  Boundary Conditions and Complexities in Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Forum: LLC Asian American
Papers on pedagogical practices and concerns in teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita. 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 89a3bdae3b690c5f0a6c3ffe38259862 Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/543801/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:44:42 -0500 This essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bc8067d9d31dff96a07def36cc8ffc2 Philip Smith deposited Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539241/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:29:20 -0500 This paper offers a synthesis and critique of the existing academic literature on Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese and an overview of Asian American alternative comics. It examines the range of literary and linguistic sources which Yang draws upon in his collage of Chinoiserie and Japonism. It presents the argument that existing criticism h…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f996e8d7983e77d8bc560c692543115 Philip Smith deposited Wiz Kids, nuclear bombs, and Marvel’s Hazmat in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539234/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:18:52 -0500 In my paper ‘Postmodern Chinoiserie in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese’ (2014, Literature Compass 11 (1): 1–14), I propose that existing scholarship on the portrayal of Asians and Asian Americans in American comics has largely focused upon racist newspaper cartoons from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and modern Asian-A…[Read more]

]]> 0 41522ad3075ccdeb1a77184b2c8c75e8 Jeehyun Lim started the topic Candidate statement for Executive Committee, Asian American Forum in the discussion Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american/forum/topic/candidate-statement-for-executive-committee-asian-american-forum/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:12:37 -0400 I am honored to be nominated for the Asian American Forum’s Executive Committee. Asian American literature and culture are central to my research and teaching interests. As executive committee member of the forum I will try to represent current topics, issues, and directions in Asian American literature and criticism in designing the MLA forum…[Read more]

]]> 0 16a2c1b3c705b4405a230a0aa73de445 Subarno Chattarji deposited ‘‘The New Americans’’ : The Creation of a Typology of Vietnamese-American Identity in Children’s Literature in the group LLC Asian American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531873/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 13:13:05 -0400 The influx of Vietnamese refugees, ‘‘boat people,’’ and immigrants into the United States after April 1975 has led to the establishment of a significant Vietnamese-American community. There is a body of literature written for children and young adults that creates and delineates this new community within the topography of a welcoming and immigra…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb73561b0854d1e526f5bce4cfe735a6 Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group Asian American Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/317403/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:03:03 -0400 This article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.

]]> 0 2e89522ec6cf0fcf26f6a0f108dc4cca Timothy Yu started the topic Asian American Literature Division Panels at MLA 2015 in the forum Asian American Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american-literature/forum/topic/asian-american-literature-division-panels-at-mla-2015/ Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:09:33 -0500 The Asian American Literature Division has organized two panels for MLA 2015 in Vancouver. We hope you will be able to attend.
324. Asian American Literary Studies and the Vietnam War
Friday, 9 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 120, VCC West

Program arranged by the Division on Asian American Literature

Presiding: Crystal Parikh, New York Univ.

1. “…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d90e213ded8f56ec6b3d403460adc12 Paul Y. Lai replied to the topic Wikipedia edit-a-thon? in the forum Asian American Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american-literature/forum/topic/wikipedia-edit-a-thon/#post-3391 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:50:56 -0400 Hey, so this is happening through the Smithsonian this year!

http://smithsonianapa.org/wiki/

We’re thrilled to invite you to Wikipedia APA, an editing event for improving and increasing the presence of cultural, historic, and artistic information on Wikipedia pertaining to Asian Pacific American (APA) experiences.

The first Wikipedia ed…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c5dd873a07c9e4ad8f4bb495adfca6d Timothy Yu replied to the topic Call for Papers in the forum Asian American Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/asian-american-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-3/#post-3277 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:36:14 -0400 The following special session CFP may be of interest to Asian American Literature Division members. Please note that this is not a guaranteed session.

Crossing Borders in Asian North American Literature

Intersections between Asian American and Asian Canadian literature: cross-border influence and exchange, transnational/global frameworks, theory…[Read more]

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