Lisa Lowe

Immigrant Acts

On Asian American Cultural Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Immigrant Acts" is a compelling and persuasively written presentation of Asian American 'cultural production.' It is both an exciting and instructive volume."--Barbara Harlow, The University of Texas at Austin

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822318583
• ISBN-10: 082231858X
• Artikelnr.: 41376079

Autorenporträt

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms and coeditor (with David Lloyd) of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1. Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique 1
2. Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies 37
3. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences 60
4. Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism 84
5. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the
Question of History 97
6. Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee 128
7. Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women 154
Epilogue 174
Notes 177
Bibliography 223
Index 241