AARG Meeting Nov 2nd, 5:15pm

UPDATE: We will be finished in time for the Asian American Collective at 6:30

The next Asian-Am Reading Group meeting will be held at Rising Sons Deli on State Street on Friday, November 2^nd at 5:15pm. We will discuss Chang Rae Lee’s _Native Speaker_. If you’re interested in attending, now’s a great time to start reading this fantastic novel.

Even if you are unable to finish the novel by November 2^nd, please feel free to come and enjoy some company.

WHAT: Asian-Am Reading Group

WHERE: Rising Sons Deli on State Street

WHEN: Friday, November 2^nd at 5:15pm

READING: Chang Rae Lee’s _Native Speaker_

CONTACT: Emily Yu at eyu@wisc.edu for more details

Asian-Am Reading Group meeting Wednesday, September 26th at 3pm

We will discuss scheduling for the rest of the semester and the following texts:
Excerpts from Edward Said's Orientalism
Excerpts from Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts

The readings can be found at the Learn@UW website. If you would like access to the readings, please email Emily Yu at EYU at WISC dot EDU.

WHERE: Lakefront at Langdon dining room at the Memorial Union

WHEN: Wednesday, September 26th at 3pm

CONTACT: Emily Yu

Asian American Reading Group (AARG)

Hey All,
I am in the process of setting up the Asian-American reading group. We will be reading critical theory, novels, poetry, and other texts written by or about Asian-Americans.

My hope is that we can meet monthly to discuss a schedule of texts. The tentative schedule is currently every fourth Wednesday at 3pm in Memorial Union (Lakefront on Langdon dining room).

September 26th at 3pm will be our first meeting. I will have the readings available on Learn@UW shortly.

If you've already contacted me about your interest in the reading group, you will be receiving an email in the next week to join the Learn@UW site. If you are interested but have not emailed me, please do so. I can be reached at eyu at wisc dot edu.


All the Best,
Emily Yu

OT: Asian American Reading Group (AARG!), 2007-08 Schedule

Please contact Emily Yu at eyu at wisc dot edu for more information. I will be in touch about this in late August. A big thank you to everyone who has already emailed me about joining. I've put together an impromptu list based on many requests and syllabi.

Caveat: I am unfamiliar with most of these texts, so I’m not entirely sure if some theoretical texts work well with the literary/filmic texts that follow. Please feel free to provide me suggests, criticisms, etc.

September
• Arjun Appadurai, “Diversity and Disciplinarity as Cultural Artifacts” in Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies, eds. Cary Nelson and Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar (New York: Routledge, 1996), 23-36.
• Excerpt from Said’s Orientalism
• Excerpt from Lisa Lowe’s Immigrant Acts

October
• Chang Rae Lee, Native Speaker

November
• Elaine H. Kim, “ ‘Such Opposite Creatures’: Men and Women in Asian American Literature”.
• Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Hsu Wong, “An Introduction to Chinese- and Japanese-American Literature,” in Aiiieeeee!.

December
• Mai’s America (film)

February
• Some stories from Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior and China Men
• King-Kok Cheung, “The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critics Choose between Feminism and Heroism?”

March
• Leslie Bow, “ ‘For Every Gesture of Loyalty, There Doesn’t Have to Be a Betrayal’: Asian American Criticism and the Politics of Locality”
• Excerpt from Nancy Yuval-Davis, The Situated Politics of Belonging

April
• Some poetry from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée

May
• Chan is Missing (film)