Jean Amato has a number of articles due to be published soon in academic publications, as well as an upcoming conference presentation. “Ideological Mappings of Gendered Bodies, Nations and Spaces in Louis Chu’s 1961 Chinatown Novel, Eat a Bowl of Tea,” in Ecologies of Seeing, edited by Mark Ledbetter and Asbjørn Grønstad, is due later this year; “Oxhide II [牛皮二] (2009), Chinese Filmmaker Liu Jiayin’s new geography of the home,” in Spaces of the Cinematic House: Behind the Screen Door, edited by Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Stella Hockenhull, and Eleanor Andrews, will be published next year; “It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980s to 2010s,” in CoHaB: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by Florian Klager, is also forthcoming.
Amato will give a presentation, “Yi-Fu Tuan’s memoir Coming Home to China (2007): Interrogating the Story of Ourselves Through Traveling Bodies, Spaces, Homes, and Mixed Geographies,” during the Architecture, Space, and Literature panel at the Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference November 6-8 at Portland State University in Oregon. For more information, contact Jean Amato, 75343.