What is Asian American Marxism?
UC Berkeley Colleen Lye
May 2, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne
Program in American Studies
Asian American Studies Series
Colleen Lye is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of “America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945” (Princeton University Press, 2005), a study of the making of “Asiatic racial form” through the mutual influence of literary naturalism and U.S. immigration and foreign policy in an era of U.S. expansion across the Pacific. Her current book-in-progress is a literary history of the Asian American subject of 1968. She will present a lecture titled “The Asian Bourgeois.”
Co-sponsored by the Department of English.
