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Imagine Otherwise On Asian Americanist Critique

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ISBN-10: 0822331403

ISBN-13: 9780822331407

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kandice Chuh

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'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 reframing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique.
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/17/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.29" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Kandice Chuh is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Preface: imagine otherwise
Introduction: on Asian Americanist critique
Against uniform subjectivity: remembering "Filipino America"
Nikkei internment: determined identities/ undecidable meanings
"One hundred percent Korean": on space and subjectivity
(Dis)owning America
Conclusion: when difference meets itself
Notes
Works cited
Index