Asian communities outside Asia are becoming larger and more numerous. These communities, made up of people who migrated, but also their children who were already born in the West, have a certain artistic and cultural production, and are gaining relevance.

This course-workshop, whose operation is similar to that of a reading club, focuses on cultural production in the field of literature. What is meant by Asian-descendant literature? Is it the same as diaspora literature? Some keys will be provided to understand this type of literature, what role they play in disseminating Asian culture and we will learn about some works and authors that are in the media focus, both of the Asian collective in the United States, larger and with greater reach, like the one that is being born in Spain. 

Instead of dividing the sessions by country, a division by narrative genre has been established. Thus, in each one we will see different formats, both fiction and non-fiction. 

The first part of the sessions will be dedicated to establishing a brief social and cultural context of the authors, as well as other proposals that make known the great variety of authors translated into Spanish, while in the second part we will share the readings and share our impressions. 

Throughout the sessions, different fragments of the works of the aforementioned authors will be provided through the course's virtual community. It is necessary to read them before the session to be able to discuss them that day in class.

Program:

• Session 1: What is Asian-descendant literature? The dilemma of categorization. Generalities of Asian-descendant and diaspora literature. Poetry – Paloma Chen, Yan Huang, Jenny Xie, Ocean Vuong, Li-young Lee, Indran Amirthanayagam, etc.

• Session 2: Memories and the migratory path – Jung Chang, Michelle Zauner, David Chang, Kim Thúy, Sungju Lee, Hyeon-seo Lee, etc.

• Session 3: Historical fictions – Min Jin Lee, Julie Otsuka, Lisa See, Weina Dai Randel, etc.

• Session 4: Fantasy, youth literature and New Adult – Sue Lynn Tan, Chloe Gong, Emiko Jean, RF Kuang, etc.

• Session 5: Fiction – Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aki Shimazaki, etc.

• Session 6: Nonfiction Text – Crystal Tai, Ryoko Sekiguchi, Hwang Seung Ok, etc.

Teacher:

A Glady Juria He loves Asian literature so much that he decided to make it his profession. She is a Sinologist from the UAM and a Master in Intercultural and Business Communication between China and the US from the URJC. She spent a year in Taiwan and is currently a content creator disseminating literature from all over Asia through social networks. She has given talks at entities such as the Confucius Institute in Madrid and Valencia and the China Cultural Center in Madrid. She moderates book clubs, presents books by Asian authors, and collaborates with publishers by preparing reading reports. In the books of the Asian diaspora she found a remedy for the pain of uprooting.