Screen LibraryA companion to Asian American studies
A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the field's intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identit...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
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English Chinese |
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Blackwell companions in cultural studies ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996928 |
| Summary: |
A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the field's intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identity, this volume exemplifies the changing intellectual shape of Asian American Studies from its early periods to a more contemporary one. The anthology comprises 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Divid. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 384 p. : charts ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470996928 0470996927 1405137096 (electronic bk.) 9781405137096 (electronic bk.) 9781405115957 (electronic) 1405115955 (electronic) 1405115947 (alk. paper) 9781405115940 (alk. paper) 1280198753 9781280198755 9781405165495 1405165499 |
| Index Number: | E184 |
| CLC: | D771.262 |
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Retracing an intellectual course in Asian American studies / Chinese-American personality and mental health / The ghetto of the mind : notes on the historical psychology of Chinese America / Chinese-American personality and mental health : a reply to Tong's criticisms / A critique of Strangers from a different shore / Strangers from a different shore as history and historiography / Come all ye Asian American writers of the real and the fake (excerpt) / The woman warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific : must a Chinese American critic choose between feminism and heroism? / Split household, small producer and dual wage earner : an analysis of Chinese-American family strategies / Defining Asian American realities through literature / Asian Americans as the model minority : an analysis of the popular press image in the 1960s and 1980s / Mestiza girlhood : interracial families in Chicago's Filipino American community since 1925 / Looking for my penis : the eroticized Asian in gay video porn / Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : making Asian American differences / Beyond identity politics : the predicament of the Asian American writer in late capitalism / Filipinos in the United States and their literature of exile / Los Angeles, Asians, and perverse ventriloquisms : on the functions of Asian America in the recent American imaginary / Colonial oppression, labour importation, and group formation : Filipinos in the United States / Out here and over there : queerness and diaspora in Asian American studies / |