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Nov. 29th, 2013 07:16 pmWednesday:
- Went shopping with TX at a 99 Ranch, and we had a nice little dinner afterwards at a nearby Chinese place. We're thinking of hitting up the other new resto there. I also promised her that at some point, I'll buy a sole fish and steam it for her.
Thursday:
- Hit my office and the books at 10am, worked until around 2pm. Got two entries in for the English bib, and felt satisfied enough to try HH for Sleepy Hollow. Unfortunately she had a friend coming into town so no dice.
- TX was also supposed to have a little 'do for the holiday and she, uh, got into some unfortunate stuff and went to the hospital. So now I have okra and sweet peas for nothing. I wish I had earthworms.
Today:
- WL and I went to the Botanic Gardens today! We had a great time; she loves gardening and hiking about as much as I do... so I feel sad that she's leaving soon. We had lunch at a pho place and I went back to my office and started pulling quotes from the articles I had for the paper I plan to write. I also did some more researching. Am thinking of working on it tonight but I'm feeling kind of tired.
- It's incredible how difficult it is to find any scholarly work on 1) mainstream comics; 2) Bruce Lee (but this is less "no research" and more "every fucking book on him has been checked out and won't be back until next year"); 3) the development of specific Asian stereotypes e.g. laundromats. I've tried every single keyword I can think of
Tomorrow:
- I intend to get two more entries into my English bib! I think I'll be able to... I found a great anthology called "Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age". That brings me to 14, and then I'll try to at least outline the research report as well.
- I'm going to start outlining my paper in greater detail... I'm still not sure how to frame the whole thing, and I don't really have a singular argument on race encoding in comics--harder still since I can't find a single damn thing on how race is encoded aside from photo-realism vs. stereotyped symbolism--I think I may even have to mention this as a consideration. Once I have an outline, writing the thing tends to be easier. I still have two more days in the weekend with no one in the office.
- Part of this also has to involve a really close reading--I'm gonna have to carefully re-read stuff in this and think through what I want to do. (Am analysing Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.) I definitely want to close-read a couple of the 9066 segments, and a couple of the Legacy of Bruce Lee pieces (they both do completely different things). I"m also interested in the "slice of As-Am life" because one of them demonstrates "averageness" and a kind of assimilation into American middle-classdom, and another is more lower-middle-class.
- I do wish there were more South Asian and SEAsian pieces though, but then, a huge part of my focus is how race is encoded onto light-skinned Asians who, if drawn by other kinds of artists who don't focus on these things, could be read as white unless someone was aware of their ethnicity. (A huge part of this stems from the fact that I never really clued onto Jubilee being Chinese American until recently because I didn't really follow X-Men and it never came up in the cartoon.) And part of the question I'm asking is, is ethnicity encoded only through narrative or can it also be done visually with only line art, no color? If the former, how does the visual aspect enable the reading of ethnicity onto the characters? If the latter, what are the aspects of depiction that need attention to maintain the balance between iconicity (simplified symbolism necessary for the reader to be able to project themselves onto the characters) vs. photo-realism (which in McCloud's theory prevents the reader from being able to follow the message of the narrative easily)?
Er. Yeah.
- Went shopping with TX at a 99 Ranch, and we had a nice little dinner afterwards at a nearby Chinese place. We're thinking of hitting up the other new resto there. I also promised her that at some point, I'll buy a sole fish and steam it for her.
Thursday:
- Hit my office and the books at 10am, worked until around 2pm. Got two entries in for the English bib, and felt satisfied enough to try HH for Sleepy Hollow. Unfortunately she had a friend coming into town so no dice.
- TX was also supposed to have a little 'do for the holiday and she, uh, got into some unfortunate stuff and went to the hospital. So now I have okra and sweet peas for nothing. I wish I had earthworms.
Today:
- WL and I went to the Botanic Gardens today! We had a great time; she loves gardening and hiking about as much as I do... so I feel sad that she's leaving soon. We had lunch at a pho place and I went back to my office and started pulling quotes from the articles I had for the paper I plan to write. I also did some more researching. Am thinking of working on it tonight but I'm feeling kind of tired.
- It's incredible how difficult it is to find any scholarly work on 1) mainstream comics; 2) Bruce Lee (but this is less "no research" and more "every fucking book on him has been checked out and won't be back until next year"); 3) the development of specific Asian stereotypes e.g. laundromats. I've tried every single keyword I can think of
Tomorrow:
- I intend to get two more entries into my English bib! I think I'll be able to... I found a great anthology called "Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age". That brings me to 14, and then I'll try to at least outline the research report as well.
- I'm going to start outlining my paper in greater detail... I'm still not sure how to frame the whole thing, and I don't really have a singular argument on race encoding in comics--harder still since I can't find a single damn thing on how race is encoded aside from photo-realism vs. stereotyped symbolism--I think I may even have to mention this as a consideration. Once I have an outline, writing the thing tends to be easier. I still have two more days in the weekend with no one in the office.
- Part of this also has to involve a really close reading--I'm gonna have to carefully re-read stuff in this and think through what I want to do. (Am analysing Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.) I definitely want to close-read a couple of the 9066 segments, and a couple of the Legacy of Bruce Lee pieces (they both do completely different things). I"m also interested in the "slice of As-Am life" because one of them demonstrates "averageness" and a kind of assimilation into American middle-classdom, and another is more lower-middle-class.
- I do wish there were more South Asian and SEAsian pieces though, but then, a huge part of my focus is how race is encoded onto light-skinned Asians who, if drawn by other kinds of artists who don't focus on these things, could be read as white unless someone was aware of their ethnicity. (A huge part of this stems from the fact that I never really clued onto Jubilee being Chinese American until recently because I didn't really follow X-Men and it never came up in the cartoon.) And part of the question I'm asking is, is ethnicity encoded only through narrative or can it also be done visually with only line art, no color? If the former, how does the visual aspect enable the reading of ethnicity onto the characters? If the latter, what are the aspects of depiction that need attention to maintain the balance between iconicity (simplified symbolism necessary for the reader to be able to project themselves onto the characters) vs. photo-realism (which in McCloud's theory prevents the reader from being able to follow the message of the narrative easily)?
Er. Yeah.