East Main Street Asian American Popular Culture

Name: East Main Street Asian American Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780814719633

ISBN-10: 0814719635

ISBN-13: 9780814719633

Edition: 2005

Authors: Shilpa Davï¿½, LeiLani Nishime, Tasha G. Oren, Robert G. Lee

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View the Table of Contents .nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Read the Introduction . ocirc;A veritable feast of the field's most scrumptious offerings,East Main Streetsatisfies with some of the best minds in Asian American studies at this table.ouml; Gary Y. Okihiro, author ofCommon Ground: Reimagining Asian American History "Sure to spark the imagination of both seasoned fans of Asian American popular culture and the as yet uninitiated. From cyberspace and anim? toThe Simpsons andSecret Asian Man , this book intrigues and provokes with every chapter. The sheer number of savvy cultural critics assembled ensures that readers will find something of interest, no matter where one begins exploring the popular…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction




Trance-formations : orientalism and cosmopolitanism in youth culture




Making transnational Vietnamese music : sounds of home and resistance




Planet Bollywood : Indian cinema abroad




Model minorities can cook : fusion cuisine in Asian America




"Pappy's house" : "pop" culture and the revaluation of a Filipino American "sixty-cents" in Guam




"Within each crack/a story" : the political economy of queering Filipino American pasts




"A woman is nothing" : valuing the modern Chinese woman's epic journey to the west




Between yellowphilia and yellowphobia : ethnic stardom and the (dis)orientalized romantic couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown




Whose paradise? : Hawai'i, desire, and the global-local tensions of popular culture




Miss Cherry Blossom meets mainstream America




How to rehabilitate a mulatto : the iconography of Tiger Woods




Bruce Lee in the ghetto connection : Kung Fu theater and African Americans reinventing culture at the margins




"Alllooksame"? : mediating Asian American visual cultures of race on the web




Guilty pleasures : Keanu Reeves, superman, and racial outing




Cibo Matto's Stereotype A : articulating Asian American hip pop




Apu's brown voice : cultural inflection and South Asian accents




Secret Asian man : angry Asians and the politics of cultural visibility