April 9
ABC – American-born Chinese
FOB – Fresh off the boat
UBC – University of a billion Chinese
UCLA – University of Caucasians living among Asians
PopCon: MoPOP, Seattle, April 11-14
Only You and Your Ghost Will Know: Music, Death, and the Afterlife
I write therefore I am
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
Creative non-fiction
“art is a lie that leads to the truth”
Creative non-fiction, balance between “eye and I”
sight – visual
smell – olfactory
sound – aural
taste – gustatory
touch – tactile
“writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Intrinsic vs Extrinsic
Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page
April 10
pedagogy – theory, practice, and philosophy of teaching
peda – children
gogy – leading
Paidagogos – slave in Greece who taught children
seminarium – “seed plot”
April 12
My America (… or Honk if You Love Buddha), 1997, 87 mins, dir. Renee Tajima-Peña
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957)
John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Linh Dinh, Postcards from the End of America (2017)
Searching for “Asian America”
Victor Wong, Jack Kerouac, beatnik culture, Chinatown
New Orleans, Filipino matriarchs, Asian Americans considered as white
Bill and Yuri, WWII, Japanese internment, Civil Rights Movement
Duluth, MN, garment workers, Hmong family
Seattle, Seoul Brothers, “by any means necessary”
American Studies
“What is America?”
“What is an American?”
Jeff Chang, Who We Be
442nd Regimental Combat Team