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Re: Need cool Asian Literature for High School students
Posted by Sara on 5/01/08

    I still like Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior - it's almost the first if not the
    first book of what some might call the Asian Renaissance as the book came out in
    the 60s.
    And I think it fits into your theme nicely - she works as a first generation Asian
    American to blend the old mythologies and family legends that are myth with the
    truth of her life in America and to fashion some coherent understanding of herself
    - who is she? Who should she be? And she is a hero warrior in her search for self.

    Also in the book is the conflict of women's secondary position in traditional
    Chinese society with her rising sense of self as something new - an Asian
    American. Thus the 'Woman' in the Woman Warrior.


    > have you considered showing scenes from Kurasawa's movies
    > Ran or Throne of Blood (adaptations of Shakespeare plays
    > King Lear and MacBeth)? It might be a good way to see the
    > universal themes.
    >
    > On 4/30/08, bill wrote:
    >> I am currently teaching a World Lit class and an am light
    >> in the Asian Lit department. i'd like suggestions for a
    >> novel by an Asian author, 20th century preferred, that I
    >> could use as a whole class text. We start the year
    >> focusing on Greek mythology and tragedy, segue from that
    >> to Shakesperean tragedy. I'd like to keep the books
    >> thematically related, so a hero/mythological themed book
    >> would be the best fit.
    >>
    >> Help! Thanks!


 
 
 
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