AAST 398 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Language Barrier, Millennials, Masculinity

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAST 398
• Professor: mimikhuc

Document Summary

For each question, prepare a 4-minute oral response. Be sure to draw on at least one course text and/or context presentation for each answer. When close reading films, be sure to refer to particular scenes. What is jane iwamura"s theory of the oriental monk? (be sure to include its function and its consequences. ) Be sure to discuss what the films use to mark each of them as authentic authorities of their traditions. Western anxieties: eastern culture requires obsolescence racist love. In order to love asians, they have to be dying out or the last of their kind. Asian religions aren"t seen as archaic or backwards anymore, but rather spiritual transformations that can completely change and improve your life. It gets used by white people for their own needs. Cultural appropriation, gurus in kumare who are in it for the money.