Book Talk with Anne Anlin Cheng

Name: Book Talk with Anne Anlin Cheng
Start: 2024-10-11T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-11T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 1921 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401-8031, United States

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1921 Bull St, Savannah, GA 31401-8031, United States | Savannah, GA

Join us on October 11 @ 6:30pm
Author Anne Anlin Cheng will discuss her new book, "Ordinary Disasters".
This event will take place at our Starland location at 1921 Bull St. Beverages will be available for sale at the bar. Paid tickets include a copy of the book, more books will also be there for purchase. Only books bought from E. Shaver will be signed at this event.
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-anlin-cheng-book-talk-tickets-991309713037
Anne Anlin Cheng is Professor of English, and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Committee on Film Studies, at Princeton.She is the author of three books: : The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief; Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface, which won Honorable Mention for Best Book from the Modernist Studies Association; and, most recently, Ornamentalism, which served as an impetus for the Metropolitan Museum’s upcoming show on Chinoiserie, opening in 2025. Anne will be talking at E. Shaver Books Starland about her latest release Ordinary Disasters.
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng
Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years.
Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.