Imagining Asia in the Americas

Herausgeber: Rivas, Zelideth María; Lee-DiStefano, Debbie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Investigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780813585215
• ISBN-10: 081358521X
• Artikelnr.: 44891570

Autorenporträt

Zelideth María Rivas and Debbie Lee-DiStefano

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Debbie Lee-DiStefano
 
Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the
Americas
Kathleen López
 
Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese
Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity
Martin A. Tsang
 
Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires
and National Imaginaries
Junyoung Verónica Kim
 
Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico
and Cuba
Adrian H. Hearn
 
Part II: Historicities: Interlude
Kathleen López
 
Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and
Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba
José Amador
 
Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial
Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i
Julia Katz
 
Part III: Lives / Representations: Interlude
Kathleen López
 
Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences
Ann Kaneko
 
Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati
Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
 
Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in
Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi
Ignacio López-Calvo
 
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index