Assignments

Critical Question Presentation and Roundtable (20%) -- You will be a required to sign up in small groups for an oral presentation and roundtable during the course of the semester. For your presentation, you will read the texts assigned for a particular week, summarize and articulate two or three main points from the week’s scholarly or critical text (as assigned), generate a critical question connecting the theory to the text, and contribute to in-class and online discussion for the week.

Critical Response Papers (20%) -- You will complete a number short, critical, analytical response papers. These single-spaced, one-page writings serve as close readings of, analyses of, and articulations of the texts and connections you see, read, and talk about in the tutorial. You will be required to generate a response paper approximately every other week for a total of 7.

Creative Responses (10%) -- Over the course of the semester, you will write a short-short story, create a drawing, and generate a critical review as an alternative way to explore and demonstrate the ideas and goals of the course. These creative responses will be evaluated on completion and your critical, thoughtful engagement with the prompts.

Final Project (20%) -- You will complete a Final Project that integrates what you have read, explored, and written about in your Response Papers, that draws on specific terms, concepts, or issues from the class, and that articulates the critical value of Asian American literature. The project asks you to make connections and to create an argument across different kinds of evidence and added research. Your final project can be a traditional research paper, a media production (which includes a substantive analytical component), or a hybrid of the two.

Information Sheets

The following are handouts, informational sheets, and readings that will be assigned or used over the course of the quarter. Each student will recieve a copy of each as a handout in class during the appropriate week. If you miss a sheet, feel free to print out a new copy.

Ed's Top Ten List of "Ways to Survive University"

Ed's Top Ten Rules of Writing

What is Close Reading?

How to Write a Summary

Claims, Claims, Claims

Introductions & Conclusions

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

MLA Citation and Bibliographic Format

Revision Check-List

Readings

The course texts are available via the Little Professor Book Center (65 S. Court) or Ohio University online bookstore (or through any reputable bookseller). Shorter readings are available via the course Blackboard. The required texts for this class are:

Mori, Toshio. Yokohama, California. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior. Tan, Amy. Joy Luck Club. Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies. Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters, A Play. Yang and Liew, The Shadow Hero. Liu and Takeda, Monstress, Vol. 1. Lai, Larissa. The Tiger Flu.

Consult the course syllabus for the week's required reading. The following is a full bibliographical list of the class readings:

Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. "Disability." Keywords for Disability Studies. NYU Press. 29 May 2018. https://keywords.nyupress.org/disability-studies/essay/disability/. Alston, Vermonja R. "Environment." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 104-106. Aultman, B. "Cisgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 61-62. Batzke, Ina and Linda M. Hess. "Gender and Violence in Pandemic Futures in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu." Gender Forum. 80 (2021) 54-71. Bell, Andrea L. and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan. "Introduction: Science Fiction in Latin America and Spain." Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain. Eds. and Trans. Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilan. Wesleyan University Press, 2003. 1-19. Bereola, Abagail. "A True Utopia: An Interview With N. K. Jemisin." The Paris Review. 3 Dec. 2018. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/03/a-true-utopia-an-interview-with-n-k-jemisin/ Berlant, Lauren. "Citizenship." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 37-42. Burgett, Bruce. "Sex." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 217-221. Caspari, Martina. "Changing the Dominant Discourse and Culture, One Eater at a Time: Subversive Discourse and Productive Intervention in “Mrs. Sen's” in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." Pacific Coast Philology. 49.2 (2014) 245-261. Chang, Edmond Y. "Close Playing, a Meditation on Teaching (with) Video Games." edmondchang.com. 11 Nov. 2010. http://www.edmondchang.com/2010/11/11/close-playing-a-meditation/ Chang, Edmond Y. "'Do They See Me as a Virus?: Imagining Asian American Environmental Games." American Studies. 60.3/4 (2021) 145-157. Chang, Edmond Y. "Musings on Asianfuturism." edmondchang.com. 27 Apr. 2020. http://www.edmondchang.com/2020/04/27/musings-on-asianfuturism/. Cherniavsky, Eva. "Body." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 26-29. Chiu, Monica and Jeanette Roan. “Asian American Graphic Narrative.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. 26 Sep. 2018. https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-784. Davis, Jonita. "How Black Women Are Reshaping Afrofuturism." Yes! Magazine. 24 Apr. 2020. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2020/04/24/how-black-women-are-reshaping-afrofuturism/ Dillon, Grace. "Imagining Indigenous Futurisms." Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon. University of Arizona Press, 2012. 1-12. Dokko, Misun. "The Dirt on Narratives of Resistance in Jessica Hagedorn's Play Dogeaters." Journal of Narrative Theory. 42.3 (Fall 2012) 248-288. Ferguson, Robert A. "Race." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 191-196. Fickle, “American Rules & Chinese Faces: The Games of Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” MELUS. 39.3 (Fall 2014) 68-88. Georgiou, Myria. "Identity." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 94-98. Gray, Herman. "Race." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 61-164. Gruesz, Kirsten Silva. "America." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 16-22. Halberstam, Judith. "Gender." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 116-120. Henderson, Lisa. "Representation." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 172-176. Huang, Betsy. "Reorientations: On Asian American Science Fiction." Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 95-140. Khan, Aysha. "Muslim Women are Building New Worlds in Science Fiction." The Washington Post. 17 Jul. 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/muslim-women-are-building-new-worlds-in-science-fiction-and-changing-the-confines-of-the-genre/2020/07/17/ddea6a6e-c7aa-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html Lai, Larissa. "Familiarizing Grist Village: Why I Write Speculative Fiction." Canadian Literature, no. 240, spring 2020, pp. 19+. Gale Literature Resource Center, Jack London Online. http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/invasion.html McPherson, Tara. "Digital." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/digital/. Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina. "The Altermundos of Latin@futurism." Alluvium. 15 Mar. 2017. https://www.alluvium-journal.org/2017/03/15/the-altermundos-of-latinfuturism/ Payne, Matthew Thomas. "Play." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. 138-140. Prashad, Vijay. "Orientalism." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 174-177. Rodriguez, Juana Maria. "Latino/a/x." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2020. 154-157. Roh, David S., Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu. “Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction.” Techno-Orientalism. Eds. David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu. Rutgers University Press, 2015. 1-19. Shu, Yuan. “Cultural Politics and Chinese-American Female Subjectivity: Rethinking Kingson's Woman Warrior.” MELUS. 26.2 (Summer 2001) 199-223. Somerville, Siobhan B. "Queer." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2007. 187-191. Somtow, S.P. "The Thirteenth Utopia." Analog. 99.4 (April 1979): 144-160. Song, Min Hyoung. “Asian American Literature within and beyond the Immigrant Narrative.” The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature. Eds. Crystal Parikh and Daniel Y. Kim, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, pp. 3–15. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. "Asian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: NYU Press, 2014. 18-21. Tongson, Karen. "Queer." Keywords for Media Studies. Eds. Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. NYU Press, 2017. https://keywords.nyupress.org/media-studies/essay/queer/. Warrior, Robert. "Indian." Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. NYU Press, 2020. https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/indian/. Williams, Cristan. "Transgender." Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a 21st Century Transgender Studies. Spec. issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1.1-2 (2014) 232-234. Print. Wu, Judy Tzu-chun. "Gender." Keywords for Asian American Studies. Eds. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong. NYU Press, 2015. https://keywords.nyupress.org/asian-american-studies/essay/gender/ “Yellow Peril.” Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Peril

Media & Games

Analgesic Games. Sephonie. 2021. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1248840/Sephonie/. "Errand of Mercy." Star Trek. Season 1, Episode 26. Written by Gene L. Coon. Directed by John Newland. 1967. Everything, Everywhere All At Once. Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022. Ren, Mike. Night Flyer. 2020. https://mikeyren.itch.io/nightflyer. Robot Stories. Directed by Greg Pak, 2003. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, 2021.

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