| Date |
Reading |
| 1/22 |
Introduction; also selected scenes from: Madame Butterfly. Dir. Frederic Mitterand. Perf. Ying Huang, Richard Troxell. Based on the opera by Giacomo Puccini. 1995. DVD. Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment, 2002. |
| 1/29 |
Lee, Orientals, ix–xi, 1–14, 223–27; Gina Marchetti, from Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction: Introduction, 1–9; from chapter 5, "The Scream of the Butterfly," 78–89 (ON RESERVE AT MANTOR LIBRARY)
Also: selections from Garrett Hongo, The Open Boat: Divakaruni, 75–80; Lee, 146–59; Mura, 210–11 (ON RESERVE AT MANTOR LIBRARY); recommended (but not required): Hongo's "Introduction," xvii–xlii |
| 2/5 |
Lee, Orientals, chapter 1, 15–50; Hwang, M. Butterfly (including the Afterword, 94–100); Web readings: Mark Twain, "The Siamese Twins" (required); The Chang and Eng Archive (recommended); A Hyphenated Life (recommended) |
| 2/12 |
Lee, Orientals, chapter 2, 51–82; Lehman, "Crying Over the Melodramatic Penis: Melodrama and Male Nudity in the Films of the 90s" (handout); screening: M. Butterfly. Dir. David Cronenberg. Perf. Jeremy Irons, John Lone. Screenplay by David Henry Hwang. 1993. Videotape. Warner Home Video, 1994.
Web readings: illustrations from Harper's Weekly, The Chinese American Experience: 1857–1892; for other illustrations, see The Chinese in California, 1850–1925 [if this link does not hit, do this: Library of Congress American Memory |From the American Memory Home, click on "Collection Finder." Then, click on "Browse a list of subject headings." Next, click on the category "from Children--United States to Government Facilities." Next, click on "Chinese Americans--California--History--Sources." This should bring you to the pages that reads Chinese in California ~ Multiformat ~ 1850–1925 | Click on Browse by Subject and then choose "from Rivers to Yuk, Wong." Scroll down to "Sentiment concerning the Chinese: Illustrations from Periodicals." Click on "Gallery View" for thumbnails of the illustrations. Click on the illustration for a larger view. Browse through the gallery and click on what seems most interesting. |
| 2/19 |
Class does not meet |
| 2/26 |
Lee, Orientals, chapter 3, 83–105; from chapter 4, 106–36; screening: Broken Blossoms. Dir. D. W. Griffith. Perf. Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp. 1919. DVD. Kino Video, 2002. Also: Ambrose Bierce, from Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce, The Haunted Valley, 150–59 (ON RESERVE AT MANTOR LIBRARY; and available online) |
| 3/4 |
Draft for workshop on Essay #1 due; final draft of essay due in my office by noon on Monday, March 8; Lee, Orientals; review his discussion of Broken Blossoms and The Cheat.
Also, Gina Marchetti, from Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction: chapter 2, "The Rape Fantasy," 10–45 (ON RESERVE AT MANTOR LIBRARY); screening: The Cheat. Dir. Cecil B. DeMille. Perf. Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa. 1915. DVD. Manslaughter and The Cheat (Double Feature Edition). Kino Video, 2002. |
| 3/11 |
Lee, Orientals, from chapters 4–5, 136–60; Okubo, Citizen 13660; Lawson Fusao Inada, selected poems from Legends from Camp, 4–30 (ON RESERVE AT MANTOR LIBRARY); screening: Go for Broke! Dir. Robert Pirosh. Perf. Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki, Akira Fukunaga. 1951. Videocassette. Madacy Music Group, 1994.
Recommended: The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco; check out their on-line exhibit, Internment of San Francisco Japanese. See also Dorothea Lange and the Relocation of the Japanese. See also Life Magazine, December 22, 1941. |
| 3/18 |
Okada, No-No Boy |
| 3/25 |
Author presentations |
| 4/1 |
Author presentations |
| 4/8 |
Lee, Orientals, from chapter 5, 170–9; chapter 7, 204–22; draft for workshop on Essay #2 due; final draft of essay due in my office by noon on Monday, April 12 |
| 4/15 |
Cha, Dictee |
| 4/22 |
Class does not meet |
| 4/29 |
Tan, The Joy Luck Club |
| 5/6 |
Screening: The Joy Luck Club. Dir. Wayne Wang. Perf. Kieu Chinh, Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lauren Tom, Lisa Lu, Rosalind Chao. 1993. DVD. Hollywood Pictures. |
