Approaches to teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita / edited by Ruth Y. Hsu and Pamela Thoma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hsu, Ruth, 1957- editor.

Thoma, Pamela S. (Pamela Sue), 1961- editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 168.

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 168

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951---Study and teaching.

Yamashita, Karen Tei.

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951---Criticism and interpretation.

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-.

Education.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 250 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2022.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Approaches to teaching the works of Karen Tei Yamashita

ISBN:

9781603295406

1603295402

9781603295413

1603295410

OCLC:

1242915962