Category Archives: Asian-American literature
Ruth Ozeki: Zen and Politics
December 18, 2013 Reading the papers for “American Literature in the World,” I’m struck by how few wrote on My Year of Meats. Did people think it was too political, with too much of an agenda, out to get … Continue reading
Brazil: Karen Tei Yamashita, Elizabeth Bishop
April 24, 2013 Both write about human efforts that come to nothing. Bishop’s Manuelzinho begins bravely, planting gardens that ravish the eye: beds of cabbages edged with red carnations, lettuces with alyssum. But then “silver umbrella ants arrive,/ or it … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, Cain, Elizabeth Bishop, Karen Tei Yamashita, Manuelzinho, Matacao, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: “Re Dis Appearing”
October 24, 2012 I’m getting ready for the World Humanities Forum, held next week in Busan, South Korea. So I’ve been thinking about Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, born in 1951 in Busan. She immigrated with her family to the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Re Dis Appearing", Berkeley, Busan, Christian Metz, Demeter, Dictee, France, Joan of Arc, Korea, Manchuria, New York, Persephone, Raymond Bellour, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Thierry Kuntzel, Tumblr, World Humanities Forum, Yu Guan Soon
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