PatrickMooney, TA
Eng 133TL, Prof. Huang
14 March 2012
This review sheet is composed of those topics that students in my discussion sections think are likely to be important on the final, and supplemented by my notes on Professor Huang's final lecture. It is not authoritative (I myself haven't seen the final yet!), or comprehensive (any texts listed on the syllabus are fair game for the final, as is any material covered in lecture), but should be a helpful place to start studying. In particular, no space is given to materials in the course reader, because we had a limited amount of time to go through our review in section. I believe that it will likely be helpful to extend these notes to the texts in the course reader as you study.
This list contains a series of topics that we have discussed on multiple occasions throughout the quarter. It will likely be helpful to think about these issues in connection with each of the course texts as you review.
Inscriptions & material forms of writing (including, but not limited to, tattoos and graffiti)
Digression, dictation
Colonialism
Capitalism
Mercantilism
Civilization and savagery
Stereotypes
Travelogue
Religion
Problems/difficulties involved in communication
Translation
Racial imagination -- yellowface, blackface, redface, Jewface -- cultural transfusion/miscegenation
Gossip, talk-story, tsismis, and other forms of everyday communication; counterstory, counternarrative
Xenophobia/xenophilia
Unusual culinary practices
Hawaii
Voice
Emerson's circles; their expansion; narrative closure; Melville's tangent lines
American identity -- other cultural identities -- the notion of identity
Humans & dehumanization
Palimpsest
Imagination
Space
the Other
Transpacific movements & differences
Manifest Destiny
Movement of the center of the world from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic to the Pacific