Yi-Chun Tricia Lin

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, A fifteenth-generation daughter of Taiwan, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin teaches writing and literature at Borough of Manhattan Community College and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature, from SUNY, Stony Brook. Her research has been largely on cross-cultural American literature, and she is currently collaborating a few projects, including co-editing the thirtieth-anniversary special issue of WOMEN'S STUDIES QUARTERLY, entitled THEN AND NOW."

Re-mapping the Other: Cultural Translation in Asian/Pacific and Caribbean American Writing

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Beginning with a quote by Michel Foucault, Prof. Tricia Lin explained how transnation and translation were used as cultural survival strategies. The audience asked questions that explored the issue of post-colonial island literature and its impact. “We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near … Read more