Book Discussion: Balancing Two Worlds

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Location: Library 820P

Dinner afterwards--restaurant to be announced

APIA members will meet to discuss the book:

Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories edited by Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny    

Balancing Two Worlds highlights themes surrounding the creation of Asian American identity. This book contains fourteen first-person narratives by Asian American college students, most of whom have graduated during the first five years of the twenty-first century. Their engaging accounts detail the students' very personal struggles with issues of assimilation, gender, religion, sexuality, family conflicts, educational stereotypes, and being labeled the "model minority." Some of the students relate stories drawn from their childhood and adolescent experiences, while others focus more on their college experiences at Dartmouth.  

Annie Liu is ordering copies of Balancing Two Worlds. If you're interested in getting a copy, please email Annie Liu. 

Please RSVP Annie Liu at aliu@fullcoll.edu for the book discussion and/or the dinner.

APIA hosts Author Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut

Date: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Time: 11:30-1:30 
Location: Room 228, Building 200

As a Korean adoptee (KAD), Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut grew up in New England, a circumstance that inevitably prompted an early fascination with the diaspora that followed the Korean civil war. She observes that, accordingly, “many of my poems repeat and return to the themes of inarticulable loss, separation, and reimagination of the family and kinship.” As the title of this debut collection suggests, Schildkraut locates these themes in a formal expression oriented between refrain as song and refrain as restraint–”a nuanced method of expressing the equivocal and uncertain” that produces a tense flexibility in the look and feel of her poems. Schildkraut’s provocative and intensely lyrical poems seek to both unsettle and complicate presumptions about what binds people together in times of longing and loss. They do not draw solely on personal experience, but also tell the larger tale of the Korean diaspora–particularly the experiences of its women–in stories of war brides, defectors, birth mothers and other adoptees.

A copy of Magnetic Refrain is on reserve in the library under LIBRARY Ishibashi. The loan period is two days.