HACU 234

HACU 234
Traveling Identities: Immigrants, Exiles and Sojourners
in Film, Literature and Culture
Spring 2001

Eva Rueschmann
Asst. Professor of
Cultural Studies
Phone: 559-5429
erHA@hampshire.edu
Office hours: ASH 107,
M 1-2:20, Th 1-3

Mon screenings at 2:30 in ASH Auditorium
Wed seminars 2:30-5:20 in FPH 107


	Online Resources

	Check out the syllabus, including details of assignments and required texts. Communicate with other students in the class using these e-mail addresses. If you would like to set up an online discussion, please contact me. Use the research center. Ask a librarian, browse background reading. Get general advice on Division I exams. Browse links to related topics. ARCHIVE OF PREVIOUS WEEKS Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four Week Five Week Six Week Seven Week Eight Week Nine Week Ten Week Eleven Week Twelve

Screenings/Announcements

Week Nine: April 9

Screening of Mina Shum's
DOUBLE HAPPINESS
(Canada 1995, 87 min., color)
today at 2:30 in Ash Auditorium.

Check out the Film Notes and Study Questions for further information on the director and film, and additional websites. Discussion questions may serve as starting points for your journal entries.

Remember to think of a film that you would like to discuss during the last week of the semester. I will be collecting suggestions over the next couple of weeks.

Readings/Assignments

April 11

This week we use film (Shum's "Double Happiness") and fiction (Ng's novel "Bone") to explore issues of changing values and cultural assimilation among the Chinese diaspora in Canada and the United States. "Bone" in particular is concerned with the effects of assimilation on the continuity of Chinese traditional culture.

Please complete the following supplemental readings:

Fae Myenne Ng's novel Bone
Lisa Lowe, "Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History"
Morrison Wong, "The Chinese American Family"

This week we will again center our discussion around your own questions and comments on the film and do some in-class writing on the novel BONE.

Additional Websites:
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - Fae Myenne Ng

Chinese Canadian Historical Photo Exhibit

Selected photos by the German immigrant photographer Arnold Genthe of Old Chinatown in San Francisco before the fire of 1906. (The cover photograph of "Bone" is by Arnold Genthe.)

"But Women did Come...150 Years of Chinese Women in North America" - an exhibition

A Brief History of Chinese Immigration to America

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