A writer in motion / Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma -- Novels : critical dialogue and long-form fiction / Pamela Thoma -- Plays, memoir, essays, interviews, short stories, translations, and papers / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Selected bibliography / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Contexts / Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma -- Essential reference materials / Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma -- Invisible Ganesh / Karen Tei Yomashita -- Pedagogical opportunites and challenges / Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma -- "1971 : Aiiieeeee! Hotel" and Asian American literary history / Caroline Kyungah Hong -- Palimpsestuous historiographies of Asian American activism in I Hotel / Silvia Schultermandl -- Many endings, many beginnings : alternative histories of I Hotel / Jolie A. Sheffer -- Encountering others within ourselves : Circle K cycles and ethnic identity in Okinawa / Ikue Kina -- Letters to memory in Hawai'i : place history, and national identity / Ruth Y. Hsu -- A glimpse of the global sixties : teaching I Hotel in China / Wen Jin -- Yamashita's novels and contemporary interethnic American fiction / Caroline Rody -- Intersectionality, comparative racialization, and the racial pyramid in Tropic of Orange / Lynn Mie Hagaki -- Through the arc of the theater : Yamashita does Asian American drama / Josephine Lee -- Teaching Yamashita's works outside the ethnic studies classroom / Noelle Brada-Williams -- The critical regionalism of Tropic of Orange / Jamie Crosswhite -- Brazil-Maru and ethnic identities in the Japanese classroom / Rie Makino -- Hospitality, borders, and spatial politics in I Hotel / Ana Maria Manzanas-Calco -- Tropic of Orange as palimpsest : a literary cartographic approach / Anastasia Lin and John Dees -- Tropic of Orange in a literary theory course / Jessica Lewis Luck -- Rerouting the road narrative in Tropic of Orange / J. Edward Mallot -- Troubling boundaries and beginnings with "The Orange" / Robin E. Field -- Through the arc of the rain forest, Brazil-Maru, and other short stories in a Brazilian context / Gloria Karam Delbim -- Brazil-Maru and the narrative space of impersonal feelings / Pamela Thoma -- Through the arc of the rain forest and planetary fiction / Min Hyoung Song -- The voice of the globe : narrating globalization in Through the arc of the rain forest / Begoña Simal-González -- Through the arc of the rain forest, environmental apocalypse, and post-Soviet allegory / Nataliya Krynytska -- A material ecocritical approach to Through the arc of the rain forest / Ziaojing Zhou -- Critical globalization and political economy in Tropic of Orange / T. Christine Sadowski-Smith and Matthew S. Henry -- Feminist anticolonioal science (fiction) : studies in the rain forest / Aimee Bahng.
Summary:
"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Karen Tei Yamashita's works, such as I-Hotel, Tropic of Orange, and Brazil-Maru, including considerations of immigration, transnationalism, environmental concerns, magical realism, and postmodern narrative techniques. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in American, ethnic American, and Asian American literature and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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