Asian American Literature and Films
February 23-25, 2000
This symposium will bring several Asian American writers and filmmakers to Rice, under the leadership of Asian Studies faculty member Chiu-Mi Lai. The activities will coincide with the student-organized Asian American Film Festival. The goal of this symposium is to bring writers and filmmakers together for a discourse on transformative identity politics in the Asian American arena. Lai plans several roundtable discussions led my invited authors and filmmakers and focusing on issues such as assimilation, including the politics of recognition and cultural identity formation. Workshops on fiction and memoir writing as well as independent filmmaking will address authorial manipulation and artist presentation of Asian American themes by creators of Asian American identity. The symposium will also include a town meeting at the Chinese Cultural Center as well as participation from other arts and community groups such as Imprint and the Asian Pacific American Heritage Association.
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