This is a midterm. Each question has to be answered in 300-500 words. No external sources must be used, please ONLY refer to the material I have provided.

March 18, 2024March 18, 2024 Discipline: English

1. Discuss Marianne Hirsch’s idea of “postmemory” and how it may be useful for analyzing Asian American visual engagements with historical erasure. Apply her concept to a film we’ve viewed in class (examples may include Rabbit in the Moon or History and Memory).  

History and memory- https://www.kanopy.com/en/mtholyoke/video/218577
Rabbit in the moon- https://www.kanopy.com/en/mtholyoke/watch/video/173017
2. How might Foucault’s “genealogical” challenge conventions of history relate to Rabinowitz’s discussion of documentary conventions? Apply Foucault’s theorization to an Asian American documentary we’ve seen. Examples may include Bontoc Eulogy or Who Killed Vincent Chin? 
Bontoc- https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/bontoc-eulogy#channel:academic-video-online
Vincent Chin- https://proxy.mtholyoke.edu:2443/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/who-killed-vincent-chin?pass=true#channel:academic-video-online
3. Discuss Muñoz’s concept of autoethnography and apply it to The Grace Lee Project
Grace Lee Project- https://www.kanopy.com/en/mtholyoke/video/2288445
4.Drawing on Vivian Huang’s essay, what are the limits of Asian American visual representation and “visibility”? How does a focus on the “vanishing point” and inscrutability of Asian American visual art and performance depart from a mainstream politics of Asian American representation?  
PROPER CITATIONS ARE NOT NEEDED- Please just put the page number in brackets
In questions 1 and 2, discuss only 1 film of your choice.

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