Chinese, English, Spanish: Writing a Third Literature of the Americas, A Trilingual Program (Video)

Last week contributors to Amerasia Journal 38:2 “Towards a Third Literature” gathered together in New York to read from and discuss the issue. This special program was co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center with the Asian American Research Institute – CUNY, Asian American Studies Program – Hunter College, and Brown University. The event was recorded live and can be viewed below.

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Panel Information: “From Chinese American to a Third American Literature”

• Prof. Evelyn Hu-Dehart will provide a keynote overview of how and why Asians entered the literary scene of Central and Latin America.  Prof. Dehart will introduce Prof. Kathleen López, a Latin American expert who will provide commentary. (Talk in English and Spanish.)

• Prof. Kathleen López is Assistant Professor in the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (LHCS) and the Department of History at Rutgers University. Her book, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History, is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press (2013). Her research and teaching focus on the historical intersections between Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, post-emancipation Caribbean societies, race and ethnicity in the Americas, and international migration.

• Prof. Russell Leong will introduce the special volume of Amerasia Journal. (Talk in English)

• Dr. Maan Lin, Associate Professor of Chinese and Spanish and Coordinator of the Chinese Program at Queensborough Community College, will talk about translating Kam Wen Siu’s “La primera espada del imperio.”  (Talk in Chinese and Spanish.)

• Dr. Yibing Huang, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at Connecticut College and past contributor to Amerasia Journal, will talk about Simon Ortiz in China, and bringing ethnic and minority writers for cross-literary exchanges in China. (Talk in Chinese and English.)

• Dr. Wen Jin, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, will talk about the future of racial and minority literary contacts from two nations. (Talk in Chinese and English.)