The Road Home
Location
JAAC 1034
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
25-9-2017 7:00 PM
Description
Join us in a Humanities Symposium retrospective viewing of the award-winning 2000 Chinese film The Road Home in which a Chinese business man returning home due to the death of his father, while trying to abide by his mother’s wishes that his father’s coffin be carried home to their remote village, retells for us the story of his parent’s courtship in the face of obstacles placed in their way by government-enforced separation. For lovers of Southern American literature, the resonance with themes raised by Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying provides us with the perfect opportunity to reflect cross-culturally on the place of customs of death, family, love and loss in our understanding of home, the topic we have been engaged with for the past two weeks. Post film discussion will be led by Professor Sue Trout of the English Department and Professors Ronnie Littlejohn and Qingjun Li of Asian Studies.
Recommended Citation
Li, Qingjun (Joan); Trout, Sue; and Littlejohn, Ronnie, "The Road Home" (2017). Humanities Symposium. 1.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2017/ff2017/1
The Road Home
JAAC 1034
Join us in a Humanities Symposium retrospective viewing of the award-winning 2000 Chinese film The Road Home in which a Chinese business man returning home due to the death of his father, while trying to abide by his mother’s wishes that his father’s coffin be carried home to their remote village, retells for us the story of his parent’s courtship in the face of obstacles placed in their way by government-enforced separation. For lovers of Southern American literature, the resonance with themes raised by Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying provides us with the perfect opportunity to reflect cross-culturally on the place of customs of death, family, love and loss in our understanding of home, the topic we have been engaged with for the past two weeks. Post film discussion will be led by Professor Sue Trout of the English Department and Professors Ronnie Littlejohn and Qingjun Li of Asian Studies.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Global Citizenship, Leadership, Diversity, the Professions