Race & resistance : literature & politics in Asian America

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    • Nguyen, Viet Thanh

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Race & resistance : literature & politics in Asian America

Viet Thanh Nguyen

(Race and American culture)

Oxford University Press, 2002

  • : pbk.

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Race and resistance : literature and politics in Asian America

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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Crisis of Representation 1: On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 2: Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 3: The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 4: Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 5: Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects Notes Bibliography Index

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