California dreaming : movement and place in the Asian American imaginary / edited by Christine Bacareza Balance, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balance, Christine Bacareza, 1976- editor.

Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo, editor.

Series:

Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Asian American authors.

American literature.

California--In literature.

California.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 306 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Honolulu ; Los Angeles : University of Hawaii Press : UCLA Asian American Studies Center, [2020]

Summary:

California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of “Asian America” through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California’s imaginary. Here, “California” is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state’s cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the “Golden State” as the embodiment of “frontier mentality” and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production.The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California’s landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds “sensing” and “imagining” place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. California Dreaming: An Introduction

2. Sensual Labor of Claiming Place

3. Bohulano Family Binangkal

4. 100 Tiki Notes

5. Cambodian Classical Dance: Unsettlement, Authenticity, Affect, and Exclusion

6. Lao Fighters/Refugee Nation

7. 21 Reasons Why This Movie Sucks

8. From the Island of Berkeley: Hawaiian Belonging in California

9. Somewhere Tropical

10. Dreamers: A Dialogue on Education Rights and the Movement for Undocumented Migrants

11. Claiming Malibu: Indian Diasporic Dancing Bodies Aligning Geographies across Time and Space

12. Oh, Angelita Garcia!

13. Moving Tradition: Alleluia Panis and Kularts

14. Tips for Bus Riding in Los Angeles (excerpted from Going Green the Wong Way)

15. Reels

16. Vacuuming Dreams

17. L.A. Dreaming in Taipei

18. Poems

19. “Parents’ Fairytale”: Excerpt from Self (The Remix)

20. Traveling Subjects and the Subject of Travel in Vietnamese Diasporic Films

21. Photographs from Live and Online Performances

22. Abstraction 2: Television Sitcom from DentalOptics

23. Generations Within: Los Angeles 1992 and South Korean 8008

24. Golden States of Mind: Cambodian and Vietnamese Artistic Organizing in Southern California and Southeast Asia

25. Excerpts from D’FunQT

26. Of Railroads, Camps, and Strip Malls: Symbolic Landscapes of the San Gabriel Valley

27. Where You’ve Been: An Epilogue

Bibliography

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8248-8354-3

OCLC:

1183954325