Asam lit

Question 1

Julia Kristeva

Answer 1

Abjectiontate of being cast off, concept of an object and person
Alive but not
State of marginalized groups- prostitute, homos, convicts, poor people

*depressed feeling, a bleak and heavyhearted state of mind

Little memento for the boys

Question 2

A little memento for the boys

Answer 2

John Yau

Half Asian half white- call themselves mongrels
Always felt like outsiders
Struggling finding their identity- making their place in the end

Question 3

Warner Oland

Answer 3

Charlie Chan actor, Swedish

In China:
studied Chinese and played the role while being white
So, welcomed as a Chinese

Anna May Wong- mixed reception
Chinese women humiliated, disrespected
*White man playing Chinese role accepted, Chinese women playing stereotypical neg roles not accepted

Chinese actor imitates Warner Olen
-Not authentic- Swedish American imitation of the Chinese

Tacial ventriloquism - establishes a standard- set of rule, there is a protocol

Question 4

Johnson Reed act

Answer 4

very people that built the American cinema were those excluded by 1924 immigration act

Not repealed until 1965
Quota system of immigrants- focused on eastern Europeans and Asians

Question 5

Al Johnson

Answer 5

1927- Jazz singer main character
Sang black music although Jewish
Jazz singer singing to God oxymoron

Jew is 1920’s America-
Not really white
In order to become an American, you need to go through this hazing process
Blackface to appropriate American identity

Black is not external- just inferior
*Charlie Chan is inferior- exterior

“Melting plot” of Hollywood
Holly haven for all foreigners

Question 6

DICTEE

Answer 6

Theresa Cha

Question 7

The Woman Warrior

Answer 7

Maxine Hong Kingston

Question 8

Angel Island Poetry

Answer 8

Carved on the Walls

- Paul Lauter

Question 9

The Heathen Chinee

Answer 9

Bret Harte
Ah Sin
Cheating more than the Irishman

Question 10

Camp

Answer 10

Lawson Fusao Inada

Ledgends from Camp
- “”” lost Boy
things taken away

Question 11

Saturday night at the Pahala Theatre

Answer 11

Lois-Ann Yamanaka
- willyjoe and Lucy

“I is “

Question 12

Chalie Chan

Answer 12

Yunte Huang

Charlie Chan based on Chang Apana (ah ping) in Hawaii

Question 13

Neologism

Answer 13

new word, made up

“dictee”

Question 14

forgery

Answer 14

forge- to create

graffiti
Cha

Question 15

Frontispiece

Answer 15

most important image of the novel

why would Cha include although known forgery
“fakeness” of history

Question 16

epigraph

Answer 16

quote at beginning of book

Dictee- poem by Sappho, but not really Sappho

‘May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve. ‘

Question 17

Muses

Answer 17

Sections of CHa

Elitere- not one of the 9

Question 18

Pre coded

Answer 18

a way of giving information that is already formulated

Question 19

Charlie Chan Movies

Answer 19

Hayakawa- famous and successful Japanese actor
Hollywood orentalism
Fasination with Chinese culture- Chinese Theatre 1927

Oland-
Drunk
Played Dr. Fu Manchu before Chan

Charlie Chan Carries on
Then Black Camel

Question 20

Earl Biggers

Answer 20

warren, Ohio
Charlie Chan owned a laundrymat
House without a key first book 1925
Journalist to fiction

Question 21

Jack London

Answer 21

Hawaii stories- leprosy

Question 22

Hawaii

Answer 22

sandlewood aand sugar
Mark Twain- left out leprosy
possobility of hawain and chinese labor, sucess of hawaii the cheap chinese
1882 chinese exclusion act

Question 23

Dr. Fu Manchu

Answer 23

Sax Rohmer
Born from Ouiji baord
embodiement of yellow peril- threat from the west
Beard- Charlie mustach

Question 24

Jhon Chinaman

Answer 24

Name of all Chinese

Before Ah sin

Question 25

minstrel show

Answer 25

performance of another race

stand up comedy in a way

Question 26

code switching

Answer 26

switching dialects
sounds phony
so can change perception of the person

Question 27

Contact language

Answer 27

born out of necessity
2 or more groups w/o common lang
contact vernacular- defective version of language

Question 28

orthography

Answer 28

rules of spelling

Lois- ann yamanaka breaks in pidgin “um, neva, eva”

Question 29

talisman

Answer 29

object believed to contain certain magical properties thought to draw good luck to the possessor, or offer the possessor protection from possible evil or harm

The circle appears in “No-Name Woman” as a literal symbol, or “talisman,” to represent the Chinese belief in community, family kinship, and law. The Chinese family—that is, the community of kin—is like a circle:

Question 30

songs for a Barbarian Reed Pipe

Answer 30

Ts’ai yen - warrior and poetess
Song “”” which tells of her struggles in life and in being in a barbarian or different, unaccepting society
song is translated, her past chapters are her stories to be told, to be translated

Just as Ts’ai Yen had to translate the songs of Barbarians back to her people, so must Kingston take incomprehensible “culture” and translate it to her readers

Question 31

Ho Chi Kuei

Answer 31

name Brave Orchid calls Maxine

translated to more complicated translation of dog, but used affectionately for boys

Question 32

The Heathen Chinee

Answer 32

Bret Harte

Ah sin gambeling with Bill Nye

Question 33

Hero

Answer 33

Warring States Period

Nameless arrives at the Qin capital city to meet king of Qin,
who had survived assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword.

Question 34

Paniolo

Answer 34

Hawaiin cowboy