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HART0078: What is Asian Feminist Art? - Indicative Weekly Topics and Suggested Reading

Indicative Weekly Topics

Screening Asia, Framing Feminism
Theories of Yellow Femininity
Fanon and Spillers
Chinese-, Marxist-, Feminist- Film Theory 
Stitched, Padded, and Layered Senses of Self: Pacita Abad
Orality: Yee I-Lann, Ma Qiusha
Exposure: Tanaka Atsuko
Shine: Krista Thompson 
Trans: Fen-Ma Liuming, Xing Danwen
The Geopolitics of Humanism
Extreme Private Eros
Multispecies Feminism
Queer Racial Mattering
Love, Guilt, and Reparation

Suggested Reading

Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
Dai Jinhua, Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics (London: Verso, 2001)
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)
Krista Thompson, Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015)