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Title Orientations : mapping studies in the Asian diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: mapping studies in the Asian diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa -- (Un)disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? / Dorinne Kondo -- (Re)viewing an 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 -- Notes toward a conversation between area studies and diasporic studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- The stakes of textual border-crossing: hauling 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 -- Leading questions / Rey Chow -- Modelling the nation: the Asian/American split / David Palumbo-Liu -- In-betweens in a hybrid nation: construction of Japanese American identity in postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi -- Conjunctural identities, academic adjacencies / R. Radhakrishnan -- 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 Lipstiz
Summary A critical examination of what constitutes the varied positions grouped together as Asian American, seen in relation to both American and transnational forces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index
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Subject Asian Americans -- Study and teaching.
Asian Americans.
Cold War.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Asian Americans
Asian Americans -- Study and teaching
Education
SUBJECT Asia -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008624
Subject Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Chuh, Kandice, 1968- editor.
Shimakawa, Karen, 1964- editor.
ISBN 9780822381259
0822381257