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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mao, LuMing, 1959-

Young, Morris, 1967-

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English language.

Asian Americans--Education.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Intercultural communication--United States.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.

Logan Utah State University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asian American rhetorics, produced through cultural contact between Asian traditions and US English, also comprise a dynamic influence on the cultural conditions and practices within which they move. Though always interesting to linguists and ""contact language"" scholars, in an increasingly globalized era, these subjects are of interest to scholars in a widening range of disciplines-especially those in rhetoric and writing studies. Mao, Young, and their contributors propose that Asian American discourse should be seen as a spacious form, one that deliberately and selectively inco

Contents:

Introduction: Performing Asian American rhetoric into the American imaginary

Performing Asian American rhetoric in context. Transnational Asian American rhetoric as a diasporic practice / Rory Ong

Reexamining the between-worlds Trope in cross-cultural composition studies / Tomo Hattori and Stuart Ching

Asian American rhetorical memory and a "Memory that is only sometimes our own" / Haivan V. Hoang

Listening for legacies; or How I began to hear Dorothy Laigo Cordova, the Pinay behind the podium known as FANHS / Terese Guinsatao Monberg

Learning authenticity: pedagogies of Hindu nationalism in North America / Subhasree Chakravarty

Relocating authority: coauthor(iz)ing a Japanese American ethos of resistance under mass incarceration / Mira Chieko Shimabukuro

Rhetoric of the Asian American self: influences of region and social class on autobiographical writing / Robyn Tasaka

"Translating" and "transforming" Asian American identities. Artful bigotry and kitsch": a study of stereotype, mimicry, and satire in Asian American t-shirt rhetoric / Vincent N. Pham and Kent A. Ono

Beyond "Asian American" and back: coalitional rhetoric in print and new media / Jolivette Mecenas

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

Rereading Sui Sin Far: a rhetoric of defiance / Bo Wang

Margaret Cho, Jake Shimabukuro, and rhetorics in a minor key / Jeffrey Carroll

"Maybe I could play a hooker in something!" Asian American identity, gender, and comedy in the rhetoric of Margaret Cho / Michaela D.E. Meyer

Learning Asian American affect / K. Hyoejin Yoon

Afterword: Toward a theory of Asian American rhetoric: what is to be done?

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780874217254

0874217253

OCLC:

609710678

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access