Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

627. Gender Negotiations and Asian American Literature

9:00–10:15 p.m., Maryland Suite C, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Wenxin Li, Suffolk County Community Coll., NY

1. “The Absence of ‘K’: Gendered Identities in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life,” Jennifer Lemberg, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

2. “Enemy Aliens: The Representation of Masculinity in Kerri Sakamoto,” Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, Univ. of Huelva

3. “Sexual Virility and Masculine Power: Conformity and Resistance to Hegemonic Masculinities in Shawn Wong’s American Knees,” Chingyen Sawatsky, Siena Coll.

4. “Gender Negotiations and Peripatetic Revisions: Americanization of Chinese Immigrants,” Su-ching Huang, National Taiwan Univ.

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