Representations : doing Asian American rhetoric / edited by LuMing Mao and Morris Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mao, LuMing, 1959-

Young, Morris, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

English language.

Asian Americans--Education--Language arts.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Intercultural communication--United States.

Intercultural communication.

Asian Americans--Education.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric addresses this need by examining the systematic, effective use of symbolic resources by Asians and Asian Americans in social, cultural, and political contexts. Such rhetoric challenges, disrupts, and transforms the dominant European American rhetoric and it commands a sense of unity or collective identity. However, such rhetoric also embodies internal differences and even contradictions, as each specific communicative situation is informed and inflected by particularizing contexts, by different relations of asymmetry, and, most simply put, by heterogeneous voices.

The essays in Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric examine broadly the histories, theories, and practices of Asian American rhetoric, situating rhetorical work across the disciplines where critical study of Asian Americans now occurs: Asian American studies, rhetoric and composition, communication studies, and English studies. These essays address the development and adaptation of classical rhetorical concepts such as ethos and memory, modern concepts such as identification, and the politics of representation through a variety of media and cultural texts.

As the essays collectively argue, Asian American rhetoric not only reflects and responds to existing social and cultural conditions and practices, but also interacts with and influences such conditions and practices. In the process it becomes a rhetoric of becoming that always negotiates with, adjusts to, and yields an imagined identity and agency that is Asian American.

Contents:

Introduction: Performing Asian American Rhetoric into the American Imaginary 1

Performing Asian American Rhetoric in Context

1 Transnational Asian American Rhetoric as a Diasporic Practice / Rory Ong 25

2 Reexamining the Between-Worlds Trope in Cross-Cultural Composition Studies / Tomo Hattori, Stuart Ching 41

3 Asian American Rhetorical Memory and a "Memory That Is Only Sometimes Our Own" / Haivan V. Hoang 62

4 Listening for Legacies; or, How I Began to Hear Dorothy Laigo Cordova, the Pinay behind the Podium Known as FANHS / Terese Guinsatao Monberg 83

5 Learning Authenticity: Pedagogies of Hindu Nationalism in North America / Subhasree Chakravarty 106

6 Relocating Authority: Coauthor(iz)ing a Japanese American Ethos of Resistance under Mass Incarceration / Mira Chieko Shimabukuro 127

7 Rhetoric of the Asian American Self: Influences of Region and Social Class on Autobiographical Writing / Robyn Tasaka 153

"Translating" and "Transforming" Asian American Identities

8 "Artful Bigotry and Kitsch": A Study of Stereotype, Mimicry, and Satire in Asian American T-Shirt Rhetoric / Vincent N. Pham, Kent A. Ono 175

9 Beyond "Asian American" and Back: Coalitional Rhetoric in Print and New Media / Jolivette Mecenas 198

10 On the Road with P. T. Barnum's Traveling Chinese Museum: Rhetorics of Public Reception and Self-Resistance in the Emergence of Literature by Chinese American Women / Mary Louise Buley-Meissner 218

11 Rereading Sui Sin Far: A Rhetoric of Defiance / Bo Wang 244

12 Margaret Cho, Jake Shimabukuro, and Rhetorics in a Minor Key / Jeffrey Carroll 266

13 "Maybe I Could Play a Hooker in Something!" Asian American Identity, Gender, and Comedy in the Rhetoric of Margaret Cho / Michaela D. E. Meyer 279

14 Learning Asian American Affect / K. Hyoejin Yoon 293

Afterword: Toward a Theory of Asian American Rhetoric: What Is to Be Done? 323.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874217247

0874217245

9780874217254

0874217253

OCLC:

244417802