AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Transnationality, Eric Liu, Writers Workshop
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The transnational: writers, and their characters, are not anchored in one singular place anymore. While yiyun li works through the transnational, she returns to america. Story about three characters - two of them goes to america, one stays at home. Borders are still the same; genuine movement of people and ideas from one place to another. Eric liu on being accidentally asian - the accidental asian. But i think the call for multiple allegiances miss the very point of american possibility. America is exceptional not only because it provides due process and a setting for free cultural expression but also because it synthesizes the many cultures is welcomes america now is indeed a transnationality . As the world is becoming transnational, america itself has become transnational. That transnationality is what separates america from other places. Came to the us in 1996 to start a phd in immunology. Wrote instead; earned an mfa from iowa writer"s workshop (short story writers)
