Race and Resistance Literature and Politics in Asian America

Name: Race and Resistance Literature and Politics in Asian America
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ISBN: 9780195146998

ISBN-10: 0195146999

ISBN-13: 9780195146998

Edition: 2002

Authors: Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a cultural arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American…

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/28/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction: A Crisis of Representation



On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body



Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957



The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel



Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim



Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel


Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects


Notes


Bibliography


Index