Teaching Yamashita's Tropic of Orange

[aleph-zahir.livejournal.com]

I usually teach 19th and early 20th c. lit, but this summer I was assigned a 20th c. survey course.  Next week we'll be reading our final novel,Tropic of Orange.  I'm excited, but it's definitely uncharted territory.

Have any of you asianamlitfans taught this novel?  What approaches, strategies, or questions have you found to particularly useful?

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[aleph-zahir.livejournal.com]

Really? That's astounding. (Then again, my students didn't think The Crying of Lot 49 was funny, so what can you expect?)

[pylduck.livejournal.com]

Well, I also think my students are alien zombies, but that's a different matter. They also didn't cry when we read Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, but maybe I'm the only one who does that. :P

[sa-am.livejournal.com]

i didn't cry after Blu's Hanging, but it is a sad novel