AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Frank Chin, Irony, Phantasmagoria
13 Nov 2018
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The end of the book opens up the possibilities of future writing. What asam literature may also look like. 1969 conference: (cid:396)the asian experience in america yellow identity(cid:397) Frank chin"s approach to identity and creating a canon. Find writing that fights against stereotype and racism (xxii) (cid:396)asams are not one people but severalseparated from culture and geographydistinctly not white american(cid:397) Crisis ichiro had can be explained in different way. Okada is conciliatory, rabbit has to say for ichiro. After the movements, provides the cultural space to say these radical things. Race is a category and experience that is intrinsic to how he thinks about assimilation. We can have a long conversation on the sound of silence. Silence is not the absence of sound, but rather a pointing toward other sounds. Silence as refusal, as action, as the presence of something. Not empty space, but absence of a kind of speech.
