Re-Viewing Asian American Literary Studies

 Re-Viewing Asian American Literary Studies

Format your document according to the manuscript guidelines for the course (on Blackboard).

Submit via Blackboard Assignments and Turnitin (links in weekly guide for Week 2 on Blackboard) by Saturday, September 2nd at 11:59pm.

Aiiieeeee!

1. The editors of Aiiieeeee! lay out an argument for the need to reassess Asian American culture and its response from mainstream American culture. What is their argument To what degree and on which specific points do you believe their argument may still be relevant today Explain.

“Re-Viewing Asian American Literary Studies”

1. Cheung charts changes in the production and discussions about Asian American literature over time. Identify at least three specific changes she discusses that yyou find to be most interesting. Explain the change, its causes suggested by Cheung, and why you think it is interesting.

These readings, assigned for Week 2, will introduce you to the field of Asian American literary studies. One is the preface to the first ever anthology of Asian American literature, Aiiieeee! (1974), which more or less establishes the field and interjects it into American Literature. The second, “Reviewing Asian American Literary Studies,” is more scholarly and surveys changes in the field since Aiiieeee! American literature and literary studies. Published in the 1990s, it takes us half-way to today and a good distance into the flourishing proliferation of writing by Asian Americans as well as expansions of the concept of Asian American.

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