Sumários

Miné Okubo, Citizen 13660.

12 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Asian Americans in the US.

Hybrid novel, graphic memoir - how to read texts with images.

Vladimir Nabokov, "Symbols and Signs".

10 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Contextualization of Nabokov's work. 

 "Symbols and Signs" (1948) - close reading. 
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.com/2020/02/on-symbols-and-signs-hw-for-feb-12.html
Parallel with the situation of Miné Okubo's Citizen 13660.

Not Taught.

5 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Panel presentation at 2nd Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association Conference.

Discussion of "Diaspora" (cont.) Short story "Silence" by C. Bulosan, and B. Mukehrjee's "Give us your maximalists."

3 Fevereiro 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Discussion of "Diaspora" according to Brent Hayes Edwards in Keywords for American Cultural Studies.

Us and the Philippines - contextualization.
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.com/2013/11/pagina-dedicada-carlos-bullosan.html
Discussion of the short story "Silence" by C. Bulosan, and comparison of its theme and style to B. Mukherjee's defense of "maximalism" in "Immigrant Writing" (1986 essay.)

Nomadism, Immigration, Transnationalism and Diaspora. Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus."

29 Janeiro 2020, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Nomadism, immigration, transnationalism and diaspora - our relation/reaction to Lhasa's "The Living Road" (cont.)

Affective reading and subsequent close reading of Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" - intertextuality with Rubén Darío'simpression of New York upon arrival in 1898 (Prologue to "Edgar Allan Poe.")