02/05/2015 7pm-8:30pm
The Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre Street New York, NY 10013
Over the years, critic (and packrat) Hua Hsu has been thinking about the relationship between material culture and immigrant identity. For this talk and slideshow, he will curate a selection of things that comprise the immigrant household—souvenirs, photographs, newspaper clippings, old vinyl LPs, figurines, old suitcases—and try to make sense of what his collecting efforts mean at the intersection of memory and identity.
About the Speaker
Hua Hsu teaches in the English Department at Vassar College and writes about music, sports, and culture. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Bookforum, Slate, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe Ideas section and The Wire (for whom he writes a bi-monthly column). He is on the editorial board for the New Literary History of America.
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