Orientations : mapping studies in the Asian diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chuh, Kandice, 1968-

Shimakawa, Karen, 1964-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Study and teaching.

Asian Americans.

Cold War.

Asia--Study and teaching.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Little Red Chicken comes home excited about what she learned in school, she explains to Papa that every story has "an elephant of surprise."

Contents:

Introduction: mapping studies in the Asian diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa

(Un)disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? / Dorinne Kondo

(Re)viewing an Asian American diaspora: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the northwest Asian American theatre / Karen Shimakawa

Creating performative communities: through text, time, and space / Russell Leong

Cross-discipline trafficking: what's justice got to do with it? / Sharon K. Hom

Notes toward a conversation between area studies and diasporic studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty

The stakes of textual border-crossing: hauling Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in sinocentric, Asian American, and feminist critical practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong

Biyuti in everyday life: performance, citizenship, and survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV

Missile internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen

Leading questions / Rey Chow

Modelling the nation: the Asian/American split / David Palumbo-Liu

In-betweens in a hybrid nation: construction of Japanese American identity in postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi

Conjunctural identities, academic adjacencies / R. Radhakrishnan

Epistemological shifts: national ontology and the new Asian immigrant / Lisa Lowe

"Imaginary borders" / Kandice Chuh

"To tell the truth and not get trapped": why interethnic antiracism matters now / George Lipstiz.

Notes:

Sequel to: The caldecott honor book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-332) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062178

9781283062176

1283062178

9780822381259

0822381257

OCLC:

191222313