Readings for Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Please read the following materials:

"Between Nationalisms: Hawaii's Local Nation and Its Troubled Racial Paradise," by Candace Fujikane. (Circulated in class via Xerox handout.)

Introduction, Chapter Two, and Chapter Four from Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body, by Traise Yamamoto. (Available in PDF format through clicking on the links below; also available on two-hour reserve in the USD Library.)

Click Here for Introduction and Chapter Two ("In/Visible Difference: Japanese American Female Subjectivity").

Click Here for Part One of Chapter Four ("Mothers, Daughters and the Trope of Maternal Absence in Japanese American Women's Fiction").

Click Here for Part Two of Chapter Four ("Mothers, Daughters and the Trope of Maternal Absence in Japanese American Women's Fiction").

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