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Susan Thananopavarn

Susan Thananopavarn

Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program
Thompson Writing Program
susan.than@duke.edu
Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Digging Up the Past: Randall Kenan’s Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and the Suppressed Histories of the U.S. South

Chapter · March 4, 2020 This dynamic collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and political crisis. ... Cite

Negotiating Asian American Childhood in the Twenty-First Century: Grace Lin's Year of the Dog, Year of the Rat, and Dumpling Days

Journal Article The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature · January 2014 Full text Cite

Conscientización of the Oppressed: Language and the Politics of Humor in Ana Castillo's So Far from God

Journal Article Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies · April 1, 2012 This essay explores the relationship between Ana Castillo's novel So Far from God (1993) and her development of an activist poetics inspired by Paulo Freire's influential 1970 treatise Pedagogy of the Oppressed. So Far from God may be understood as the pra ... Link to item Cite

Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans

Journal Article JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Intersections of Latina/o and Asian American Literature

Other The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture Link to item Cite