Asian American Studies After Critical Mass

✍ Scribed by Kent A. Ono

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Asian American Studies After Critical Massis a dynamic collection that showcases the most exciting scholarship in the field from a critical and cultural studies perspective. Comprised of ten original essays written by a group of scholars at the vanguard of the discipline, this collection takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the twenty-first century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America. Addressing some of the most exciting issues and ideas in Asian American studies, this book strikes a bold new path for the field.This book can be used in conjunction with the Blackwell Companion to Asian American Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Asian American Studies in Its Second Phase......Page 15
Part 1: Representations......Page 31
1 What is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam......Page 33
2 Ethnography, the Cinematic Apparatus, and Asian American Film Studies......Page 54
3 Culinary Fictions: Immigrant Foodways and Race in Indian American Literature......Page 70
Part 2: Identities......Page 85
4 Foregrounding Native Nationalisms: A Critique of Antinationalist Sentiment in Asian American Studies......Page 87
5 A Gay World Make-Over? An Asian American Queer Critique......Page 112
6 Asian American Studies Through (Somewhat) Asian Eyes: Integrating ‘‘Mixed Race’’ into the Asian American Discourse......Page 125
Part 3: Disciplines and Methodologies......Page 135
7 Asian American Studies and the ‘‘Pacific Question’’......Page 137
8 Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization......Page 158
9 The Problematics of History and Location of Filipino American Studies within Asian American Studies......Page 180
10 Rethinking Asian American Agency: Understanding the Complexity of Race and Citizenship in America......Page 191
Index......Page 209