To browse Academia. This edited volume, emerging from a conference dedicated exclusively to Maxine Hong Kingston, highlights the interplay between personal narratives and academic discourse in understanding her contribution to literature. It encapsulates Kingston's reflections on identity, culture, and the evolution of Asian American studies, while presenting critical essays that explore her major works through innovative theoretical lenses.
The book serves not just as a collection of essays but as a testimony to a collaborative and dynamic discussion around Kingston's impactful literary legacy. This symposium seeks to stimulate conversations among scholars of folktales, fairy tales, and contemporary culture by focusing on social practices-translation and colonialism-that have, in different ways, shaped the history of both genres. Through public lectures, panel responses, and a public roundtable, we seek to make Hawaiian, Hawai'i-based, Pacific, and Asian concerns more visibly connected with and in critical dialog with the interdisciplinary fields of folklore and fairy-tale studies.
Coming from different discourse communities, these powerhouses of ideas were not necessarily familiar with each other's work. Other participating scholars, most of them from UHM, came from translation studies, film studies, creative writing, Hawaiian literature, American studies, international cultural studies, and folklore. While some of the lectures attracted an audience of a hundred or more, true to the symposium format, we conducted most of our discussions as.
Summary of knowledge management Rangkuman Knowledge management , Unpublished Cornell University Master's Thesis, Chatzinikolaou ed. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Edited together with Nicoleta Alexoae Zagni.
Book Symposium Fred Dallmayr. A brief post-conference reflection Menan du Plessis. Helen E. The most important practical support, however, came from Peter Schnyder. She even suggested further contacts in France, which is how the two editors of this book met. We quickly decided that if we can have Maxine and Earll Kingston in town for a visit, we might as well tell our friends and organize a real conference. The response to our CFP was overwhelming.
