具体描述
"Imagine Otherwise" is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing that the rubric 'Asian American' elides crucial differences, Kandice Chuh argues for re framing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique. Toward that end, she urges the foregrounding of the constructedness of 'Asian American' formations and shows how this understanding of the field provides the basis for continuing to use the term 'Asian American' in light of - and in spite of - contemporary critiques about its limitations.Drawing on the insights of post structuralist theory, post colonial studies, and investigations of trans nationalism, "Imagine Otherwise" conceives of Asian American literature and U.S. legal discourse as theoretical texts to be examined for the normative claims about race, gender, and sexuality that they put forth. Reading government and legal documents, novels including Carlos Bulosan's "America Is In the Heart", John Okada's "No-No Boy", Chang-Rae Lee's "A Gesture Life", Ronyoung Kim's "Clay Walls", and Lois Ann Yamanaka's "Blu's Hanging", and the short stories "Immigration Blues" by Bienvenido Santos and "High-Heeled Shoes" by Hisaye Yamamoto, Chuh works through Filipino American and Korean American identity formation and Japanese American internment during World War II as she negotiates the complex and sometimes tense differences that constitute 'Asian America' and Asian American studies.
作者简介
Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.
目录信息
Introduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 1
1. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 31
2. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 58
3. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 85
4. (Dis)Owning America 112
Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147
Notes 153
Works Cited 187
Index 211
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"subjectless" Asian American movement is so relevant and powerful for now still
评分"subjectless" Asian American movement is so relevant and powerful for now still
评分"subjectless" Asian American movement is so relevant and powerful for now still
评分"subjectless" Asian American movement is so relevant and powerful for now still
评分"subjectless" Asian American movement is so relevant and powerful for now still
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