Orientations (eBook, PDF)

Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora
Redaktion: Kandice Chuh, Chuh

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Produktbeschreibung

Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in place? Suggesting new directions for studies of the Asian diaspora, the prominent scholars who contribute to this volume raise important questions about the genealogies of these fields, their mutual imbrication, and their relationship to other disciplinary formations, including American and ethnic studies.With its recurrent themes of transnationalism, globalization, and postcoloniality, Orientations considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and a historical look at the journal Amerasia. Exploring the translation of knowledge from one community to another, other contributions consider such issues as Filipino immigrants' strategies for enacting Asian American subjectivity and the link between area studies and the journal Subaltern Studies. In a section that focuses on how disciplines-or borders-form, one essay discusses "e;orientalist melancholy,"e; while another focuses on the construction of the Asian American persona during the Cold War. Other topics in the volume include the role Asian immigrants play in U.S. racial politics, Japanese American identity in postwar Japan, Asian American theater, and the effects of Asian and Asian American studies on constructions of American identity.Contributors. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Rey Chow, Kandice Chuh, Sharon Hom, Yoshikuni Igarashi, Dorinne Kondo, Russell Leong, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David Palumbo-Liu, R. Radhakrishnan, Karen Shimakawa, Sau-ling C. Wong

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822381259
• Artikelnr.: 54935830

Autorenporträt

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. Karen Shimakawa is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and
Karen Shimakawa
I. Investments and Interventions
(Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo
(Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism,
Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen
Shimakawa
Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell
Leong
Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K.
Hom
II. Translating Knowledge
Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies /
Dipesh Chakrabarty
The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach
in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling
C. Wong
Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among
Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV
Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen
III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders
Leading Questions / Rey Chow
Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu
Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi
Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan
IV. Asian/American Epistemologies
Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant /
Lisa Lowe
“Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh
“To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters
Now / George Lipsitz
References
Contributors
Index