This panel is intended for the Association for Asian American Studies
Conference to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, April 24-28, 2002.
Proposal deadline: October 5, 2001
Contemporary scholarship on “home” is abundant. Yet, the discourses of home
usually focus on home as home-country, homeland, national belonging, poetic
imagination and so forth. This panel seeks paper proposals that deal with
various representations of the architectural home in contemporary diasporic
Asian or Asian American literature and film.
One chief narrative of America is about settling and (house) building. Many
Asian American historians (e.g. Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Ronald
Takaki, Sucheta Mazumda, etc.) have pointed out that it has been problematic
and difficult for Asian immigrants and Asian Americans to claim America in
various ways, one of which is to have a “place” of one’s own. For instance,
the early Chinese immigrants could have only a “bachelor” life during the
Exclusion era and Japanese immigrants/Americans were rendered homeless,
houseless and family-less during WWII. How is the physical home in the land
of adoption constructed or represented in a literary or filmic text? How
are different architectural forms of ‘home’ significant in understanding
themes, plot and characters of narratives? How do we read the literary
dwelling in literature/film by Asian American authors? How is the
construction of the architectural home related to, for instance, the
experiences of the diapsoran subject, Asian American identity, gender, class
and nationality?
Please send your proposal of 200-250 words (attachment preferred) and a
short biography (including your name, address, email, academic affiliation)
to shuchen@complit.umass.edu
You can visit www.aasp.cornell.edu to find out more about the AAAS 2002
conference details!
Shuchen S. Huang, Doctoral Candidate
Comparative Literature Department/
Women’s Studies Program
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
shuchen@complit.umass.edu
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