Unfastened : globality and Asian North American narratives
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Bibliographic Information
Unfastened : globality and Asian North American narratives
University of Minnesota Press, c2010
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes works cited (p. 151-165) and index
Includes filmography (p. 167)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality-the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been-supposedly-surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla, who use figures of disability to accentuate the effects of marginality. Investigating works based on fantasy, Ty highlights the ways feminist writers Larissa Lai, Chitra Divakaruni, Hiromi Goto, and Ruth Ozeki employ myth, science fiction, and magic realism to provide alternatives to global capitalism. She notes that others, such as filmmaker Deepa Mehta and performers/dramatists Nadine Villasin and Nina Aquino, play with the multiple identities afforded to them by transcultural connections. Ultimately, Ty sees in these diverse narratives unfastened mobile subjects, heroes, and travelers who use everyday tactics to challenge inequitable circumstances in their lives brought about by globalization.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Introduction: Reading Globality, I. Doing Global Dirty Work, 1. The 1.5 Generation: Filipino Youth, Transmigrancy, and Masculinity, 2. Recuperating Wretched Lives: Asian Sex Workers and the Underside of Nation Building, II. Performing and Negotiating Transcultural Identities, 3. "All of Us Are the Same": Negotiating Loss, Witnessing Disability, 4. Feminist Subversions: Comedy and the Carnivalesque, III. Future Perfect: Feminist Resistance to Global Homogeneity, 5. Shape-shifters and Disciplined Bodies: Feminist Tactics, Science Fiction, and Fantasy, 6. Scripting Fertility: Desire and Regeneration in Japanese North American Literature, Coda: Rethinking the Hyphen, Notes, Works Cited, Filmography, Index
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