From: "Vince Tseng" <vince-AT-squaretrade.com>
Subject: RE: suggestions for course on "Crossing Borders"
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:36:50 -0800


You might try Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's _Dictee_, recently republished by U.
of California Press.  It's a mixed media hybridization of poetry, biography,
fiction, ideographs, western/eastern medicine and a hundred other
representative forms -- that deals with a number of themes including
diasporic identity, generational transculturation, nationalism, and female
subjectivity.

It is without a doubt a challenging text.  The collection "Writing Self,
Writing Nation" edited by Hyun Yi Kang (Third Woman Press) is out of print,
but has good starting points for interpretation.

And if you don't already have Gloria Anzaldua's _Borderlands (La Frontera)_
on your list, you might want to look there.  It's an essential work of
Chicano border studies.

.vince

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[mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Lou
Caton
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 7:24 AM
To: postcolonial list
Subject: suggestions for course on "Crossing Borders"



Dear List,

Would list-members have suggestions for a course on "crossing borders"?
The full title at this point is as follows: "At the Edge of Expression:
The Culture, Politics, Philosophy, Art, and Literature of Crossing
Borders."  I'm gathering articles, short stories, poetry, novels, and
non-fiction book-length responses to this concern.  The course is for
strong, upper-division students, so it can have a challenging bite to
it.  It should suggest ways in which one can read across definitional
lines.   Crucial terms might include hybridity, disaspora,
transculturation, subaltern positioning, mestizo, gender bending,
post-humans, cyborgs, and social "passing."  All works should be
contemporary.  Non-Western preferred.  Translations ok.

Many thanks!

Lou Caton
Westfield State College <lcaton-AT-wisdom.wsc.ma.edu>



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