Ends of empire : Asian American critique and the Cold War / Jodi Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jodi, 1970-

Series:

Critical American studies series.

Critical American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Asian Americans--Politics and government.

Asians in literature.

Asians in motion pictures.

Cold War.

United States--Foreign relations--Asia.

United States.

Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony-one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was signific

Contents:

Introduction: unsettling hermeneutics and global nonalignments

Cold war logics, cold war poetics: conjuring the specter of a red Asia

The El Dorado of commerce: China's billion bellies

Asian America's Japan: the perils of gendered racial rehabilitation

The forgotten war: Korean America's conditions of possibility

The war-surplus of our new imperialism: Vietnam, masculinist hypervisibility, and the politics of (af)filiation

Epilogue: imagining an end to empire.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4622-1

0-8166-7344-6

OCLC:

646067958