Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen

Name: Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen
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ISBN: 9780253216618

ISBN-10: 0253216613

ISBN-13: 9780253216618

Edition: 2004

Authors: Eleanor Ty, Donald C. Goellnicht, Eleanor Rose Ty, Donald C. Goellnicht, Eleanor Ty

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The nine essays inAsian North American Identitiesexplore how Asian North Americans are no longer caught between worlds of the old and the new, the east and the west, and the south and the north. Moving beyond national and diasporic models of ethnic identity to focus on the individual feelings and experiences of those who are not part of a dominant white majority, the essays collected here draw from a wide range of sources, including novels, art, photography, poetry, cinema, theatre, and popular culture. The book illustrates how Asian North Americans are developing new ways of seeing and thinking about themselves by eluding imposed identities and creating spaces that offer alternative sites…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Eleanor Ty is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Eleanor Ty is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.Donald C. Goellnicht is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at McMaster University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Affect-Identity: The Emotions of Assimilation, Multiraciality, and Asian American Subjectivity




"I'm Blackanese": Buddy-Cop Films, Rush Hour, and Asian American and African American Cross-racial Identification




"To Hide Her True Self": Sentimentality and the Search for an Intersubjective Self in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman




Identities in Process: The Experimental Poetry of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Myung Mi Kim




Asian America Is in the Heartland: Performing Korean Adoptee Experience




"A Task of Reclamation": Subjectivity, Self-Representation, and Textual Formulation in Sara Suleri's Meatless Days




The Transnational Imagination: Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange




At the Edge of a Shattered Mirror, Community?




Claiming Postcolonial America: The Hybrid Asian-American Performances of Tseng Kwong Chi



Bibliography


Contributors


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