Session Details

Friday, 29 December

503. Ethics and Asian American Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Asian American Literature

Presiding: Tina Yih-Ting Chen, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “Two Turns: Ethics, Aesthetics, Asian American Literature,” Christopher Lee, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “The Ethical Turn in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace,” Jeannie Yu-Mei Chiu, Pace Univ., NY

3. “An Ethics of Asian American Queer Desire: Sadomasochistic Sex Acts in Lawrence Chua’s ‘King Rubber,’” Stephen Sohn, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Respondent: Sue J. Kim, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham

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