Schedule

Readings marked with * can be found in the course reader.

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14 Sept.	Questioning the Nation **Susan Koshy, “The Fiction of Asian American Literature” *Sau-ling Wong, “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads,” Postcolonial Theory and the United States, ed. Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2000)
21 Sept.	Frank Chin and Cultural Nationalism *Frank Chin, “Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy” *Chin et al., Introduction, Aiiieeeee! *Chin, “Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake” *King-kok Cheung, “The Woman Warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?”
28 Sept.	Historiography Gary Okihiro, The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
5 Oct.	Literature Sau-ling Wong, Reading Asian American Literature
12 Oct.	Asian Canadian *Roy Miki, “Asiancy,” Broken Entries **Lien Chao, “Anthologizing the Collective: The Epic Struggles to establish Chinese Canadian Literature in English” **Guy Beauregard, “The Emergence of ‘Asian Canadian’ Literature: CanLit’s Obscene Supplement?” **Donald C. Goellnicht, “A Long Labour: The Protracted Birth of Asian Canadian Literature”
19 Oct.	Transnational Perspectives I Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts
26 Oct.	Transnational Perspectives II David Palumbo-Liu, Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
2 Nov.	Transnational Perspectives III Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship
9 Nov.	Diaspora Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa, eds., Orientations
16 Nov.	Film *Richard Fung, “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn”
23 Nov.	Psychoanalysis Anne Cheng, The Melancholy of Race
30 Nov.	Postcoloniality **Viet Thanh Nguyen and Tina Chen, eds., Postcolonial Asian America, Jouvert 4.3
7 Dec.	Cultural Studies Sunaina Maira, Desis in the House