Unfastened : globality and Asian North American narratives / Eleanor Ty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Canadian literature--Asian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asians--Canada--Intellectual life.

Asians.

Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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,

Contents:

The 1.5 generation : Filipino youth, transmigrancy, and masculinity

Recuperating wretched lives : Asian sex workers and the underside of nation building

"All of us are the same" : negotiating loss, witnessing disability

Feminist subversions : comedy and the carnivalesque

Shape-shifters and disciplined bodies : feminist tactics, science fiction, and fantasy

Scripting fertility ; desire and regeneration in Japanese North American literature.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4636-1

0-8166-7355-1

OCLC:

646067962