Chinese, English, Spanish:
Writing
a Third Literature of the
Americas
A Trilingual Program
Date: Friday,
December 14, 2012
Time: 5:30PM to 9:30PM
Place: 25 West 43rd
Street, 18th Floor
between 5th & 6th Avenues,
Manhattan
Program
5:30PM to
7PM
Reception with
light
refreshments -
meat or
vegetarian
available
7:15PM to
9:15PM
Panel Discussion
& Readings
9:15PM to
9:30PM
Book Signing
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Since 30 years
ago when writers
such as
Kingston, Huang,
and Chin first
made American
readers aware of
Chinese American
literature,
exciting new developments
have taken
place. Readers
and scholars
alike have
discovered that
"Chinese
American
literature" can
no longer be
limited to works
written in
English alone.
Due to a number
of factors
including
globalization,
the rise of
China, ethnic
studies, and new
critical
scholarship, we
are finding that
the 21st century
signals a "third
literature of
the
Americas"---novels,
stories, and
poems written in
English,
Chinese, and
Spanish.
These new
developments
have resulted in
a special volume
of Amerasia
Journal
published by the
UCLA Asian
American Studies
Center entitled
"Towards a Third
Literature:
Chinese Writing
in the Americas"
edited by
Russell C. Leong
(CUNY Thomas Tam
Visiting
Professor at
AAARI); Evelyn
Hu-DeHart
(Professor of
History and
Ethnic Studies
at Brown
University); and
Wang Ning
(Professor of
English and
Comparative
Literature at
Tsinghua
University,
Beijing).
This
trilingual
program consists
of an exciting
panel discussion
and a reading of
selected
works in
English,
Chinese, and
Spanish by some
of the editors
and contributors
to this special
volume of
Amerasia Journal
(available at a
special
booksigning
price during the
program).
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Panel: "From
Chinese American
to a Third
American
Literature"
Prof.
Evelyn Hu-Dehart
will provide
a keynote
overview of
how and why
Asians
entered the
literary
scene of
Central and
Latin
America.
Prof. Dehart
will
introduce
Prof.
Kathleen
López, a
Latin
American
expert who
will provide
commentary.
(Talk in
English and
Spanish.)
Prof.
Kathleen
López is
Assistant
Professor in
the
Department
of Latino
and Hispanic
Caribbean
Studies (LHCS)
and the
Department
of History
at Rutgers
University.
Her book,
Chinese
Cubans: A
Transnational
History, is
forthcoming
from the
University
of North
Carolina
Press
(2013). Her
research and
teaching
focus on the
historical
intersections
between Asia
and Latin
America and
the
Caribbean,
post-emancipation
Caribbean
societies,
race and
ethnicity in
the
Americas,
and
international
migration.
Prof.
Russell
Leong
will
introduce
the special
volume of
Amerasia
Journal.
(Talk in
English)
Dr. Maan
Lin,
Associate
Professor of
Chinese and
Spanish and
Coordinator
of the
Chinese
Program at
Queensborough
Community
College,
will talk
about
translating
Kam Wen
Siu’s "La
primera
espada del
imperio."
(Talk in
Chinese and
Spanish.)
Dr.
Yibing Huang,
Professor of
Modern
Chinese
Literature
at
Connecticut
College and
past
contributor
to Amerasia
Journal,
will talk
about Simon
Ortiz in
China, and
bringing
ethnic and
minority
writers for
cross-literary
exchanges in
China. (Talk
in Chinese
and
English.)
Dr. Wen
Jin,
Assistant
Professor of
English and
Comparative
Literature
at Columbia
University,
will talk
about the
future of
racial and
minority
literary
contacts
from two
nations.
(Talk in
Chinese and
English.)
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Co-Sponsors:
UCLA Asian
American Studies
Center, Asian
American Studies
Program - Hunter
College, and
Brown University
