Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
by Editor: Kent A. Ono (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the vanguard of the discipline, this collection takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America. Addressing some of the most exciting issues and ideas in Asian American studies, this book strikes a bold new path for the field. This book can be used in conjunction with the Blackwell Companion to Asian American Studies.
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Asian American Studies in Its Second Phase | |
| Representations | |
| What is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam | |
| Ethnography, the Cinematic Apparatus, and Asian American Film Studies | |
| Culinary Fictions: Immigrant Foodways and Race in Indian American Literature | |
| Identities | |
| Foregrounding Native Nationalisms: A Critique of Anti-Nationalist Sentiment in Asian American Studies | |
| A World Make-Over? An Asian American Queer Critique | |
| Asian American Studies Through (Somewhat) Asian Eyes: Integrating "Mixed Race" into the Asian American Discourse | |
| Disciplines and Methodologies | |
| Asian American Studies and the "Pacific Question" | |
| Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization | |
| The Problematics of History and Location of Filipino American Studies within Asian American Studies | |
| Rethinking Asian American Victimhood: Understanding the Complexity of Race and Citizenship in America | |
| Index | |
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