Chuh Imagine Otherwise

On Asian Americanist Critique
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8442-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

A critical examination of what constitutes the varied positions grouped together as Asian American, seen in relation to both American and transnational forces.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chuh, Kandice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Imagine Otherwise ix

Introduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 1

1. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 31

2. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 58

3. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 85

4. (Dis)Owning America 112

Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147

Notes 153

Works Cited 187

Index 211

Über Autor(innen)

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.