Chih-Ming Wang
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824836429
- eISBN:
- 9780824871055
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836429.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. ...
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In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the United States and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the United States? What impact do foreign students have on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? This book explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration. It examines Chinese students' writings in English and Chinese, maintaining that so-called “overseas student literature” represents both an imaginary passage to modernity and a transnational culture where meanings of Asian America are rearticulated through Chinese. It also demonstrates that Chinese student political activities in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s have important but less examined intersections with Asian America. In addition, the book offers a reflection on the development of Asian American studies in Asia to suggest the continuing significance of knowledge and movement in the formation of Asian America.Less
In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the United States and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the United States? What impact do foreign students have on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? This book explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration. It examines Chinese students' writings in English and Chinese, maintaining that so-called “overseas student literature” represents both an imaginary passage to modernity and a transnational culture where meanings of Asian America are rearticulated through Chinese. It also demonstrates that Chinese student political activities in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s have important but less examined intersections with Asian America. In addition, the book offers a reflection on the development of Asian American studies in Asia to suggest the continuing significance of knowledge and movement in the formation of Asian America.
Shalini Shankar
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195327359
- eISBN:
- 9780199870639
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195327359.003.0018
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter identifies “Bollywood” films—feature‐length movies produced in Bombay (Mumbai), India—as a source of linguistic and cultural production in the South Asian diaspora. South Asian Americans ...
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This chapter identifies “Bollywood” films—feature‐length movies produced in Bombay (Mumbai), India—as a source of linguistic and cultural production in the South Asian diaspora. South Asian Americans (Desis), especially youth, engage with these Hindi language films with English subtitles on a number of levels. The chapter focuses on the circulation and consumption of Bollywood films in two locations in the South Asian diaspora: Silicon Valley, CA and Queens, NY. Ethnographic and sociolinguistic data of conversational exchanges, commentary during viewing, and personal narratives are presented to illustrate Bollywood's role in shaping linguistic processes of indexicality, bivalency, and identity. In these ways, the chapter analyzes how media and language use together shape style and identity in this Asian American community, as well as how this process varies between different locations of the South Asian diaspora.Less
This chapter identifies “Bollywood” films—feature‐length movies produced in Bombay (Mumbai), India—as a source of linguistic and cultural production in the South Asian diaspora. South Asian Americans (Desis), especially youth, engage with these Hindi language films with English subtitles on a number of levels. The chapter focuses on the circulation and consumption of Bollywood films in two locations in the South Asian diaspora: Silicon Valley, CA and Queens, NY. Ethnographic and sociolinguistic data of conversational exchanges, commentary during viewing, and personal narratives are presented to illustrate Bollywood's role in shaping linguistic processes of indexicality, bivalency, and identity. In these ways, the chapter analyzes how media and language use together shape style and identity in this Asian American community, as well as how this process varies between different locations of the South Asian diaspora.
Stanley I. Thangaraj
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770351
- eISBN:
- 9780814762974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770351.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
South Asian American identity is not formed against the dominant white normative masculinity alone. This chapter looks at how the racialization of South Asian Americans as “nerds” also leads to a ...
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South Asian American identity is not formed against the dominant white normative masculinity alone. This chapter looks at how the racialization of South Asian Americans as “nerds” also leads to a passing into various racial and ethnic categories. This passing is a gendered phenomenon based on a certain racial ambiguity that poses South Asian American men, like African American men, as innately athletic and dangerous to the nation and sport. South Asian Americans play in the Asian American and Latino basketball leagues while pushing the boundaries of both categories even as they are excluded from the realm of hero-making; African American men are not allowed in as frequently and they face tremendous policing. This chapter highlights the ways in which race, blackness, and masculinity are shaped through South Asian American racial ambiguity.Less
South Asian American identity is not formed against the dominant white normative masculinity alone. This chapter looks at how the racialization of South Asian Americans as “nerds” also leads to a passing into various racial and ethnic categories. This passing is a gendered phenomenon based on a certain racial ambiguity that poses South Asian American men, like African American men, as innately athletic and dangerous to the nation and sport. South Asian Americans play in the Asian American and Latino basketball leagues while pushing the boundaries of both categories even as they are excluded from the realm of hero-making; African American men are not allowed in as frequently and they face tremendous policing. This chapter highlights the ways in which race, blackness, and masculinity are shaped through South Asian American racial ambiguity.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778701
- eISBN:
- 9780804783705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778701.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American ...
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This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American Studies and traces the persistence of what it calls the “idealized critical subject,” a theoretical figure that operates throughout Asian American literary culture and cultural criticism. To understand the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation, the book analyzes texts from different moments in the history of Asian American literature, including those by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa. It looks at the referential limits of Asian America while remaining cognizant of its so-called “real-life referents.” The book also examines Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, which illustrates how the relationship between knowledge and subjectivity can be theorized through an idealized critical subject.Less
This book explores Asian American culture and politics by focusing on the notion of identity. It considers how the critique of identity politics has reconfigured the parameters of Asian American Studies and traces the persistence of what it calls the “idealized critical subject,” a theoretical figure that operates throughout Asian American literary culture and cultural criticism. To understand the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation, the book analyzes texts from different moments in the history of Asian American literature, including those by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa. It looks at the referential limits of Asian America while remaining cognizant of its so-called “real-life referents.” The book also examines Georg Lukács's History and Class Consciousness, which illustrates how the relationship between knowledge and subjectivity can be theorized through an idealized critical subject.
C. Winter Han
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479831951
- eISBN:
- 9781479824700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479831951.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter discusses the ways in which gay Asian American men construct social identities within the larger confines of race and sexuality, paying attention to how they construct these identities ...
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This chapter discusses the ways in which gay Asian American men construct social identities within the larger confines of race and sexuality, paying attention to how they construct these identities through the stories they tell about what it means to be both gay and Asian. It argues that identities are actively negotiated and maintained through interaction with others and the larger social environment, and that gay Asian male identity is a response to the racialized and sexualized situation that those who come to view themselves as gay Asian American men experience in the United States. Constructing a gay Asian male identity also defines how being gay and Asian makes one different from “regular” gays and Asians. The chapter explores the social and historical experiences of “difference” that begin to define them as a group not quite a part of “Asian America” or “gay America.”Less
This chapter discusses the ways in which gay Asian American men construct social identities within the larger confines of race and sexuality, paying attention to how they construct these identities through the stories they tell about what it means to be both gay and Asian. It argues that identities are actively negotiated and maintained through interaction with others and the larger social environment, and that gay Asian male identity is a response to the racialized and sexualized situation that those who come to view themselves as gay Asian American men experience in the United States. Constructing a gay Asian male identity also defines how being gay and Asian makes one different from “regular” gays and Asians. The chapter explores the social and historical experiences of “difference” that begin to define them as a group not quite a part of “Asian America” or “gay America.”
Stanley I. Thangaraj
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770351
- eISBN:
- 9780814762974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770351.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Where chapter 1 showed multi-ethnic spaces where ethnic and religious difference were not critical to team formation, chapter 2 looks at Indo-Pak Basketball tournaments, especially in Chicago, that ...
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Where chapter 1 showed multi-ethnic spaces where ethnic and religious difference were not critical to team formation, chapter 2 looks at Indo-Pak Basketball tournaments, especially in Chicago, that offer a way to disrupt the uniformity of South Asian American sporting masculinity through ethnicity, religion, and class. Though the young men affirm a sameness as South Asian Americans through shared racializations, they affirm difference through their religious, ethnic, and class backgrounds. In the process, they also set up difference from each other through particular athletic feats.Less
Where chapter 1 showed multi-ethnic spaces where ethnic and religious difference were not critical to team formation, chapter 2 looks at Indo-Pak Basketball tournaments, especially in Chicago, that offer a way to disrupt the uniformity of South Asian American sporting masculinity through ethnicity, religion, and class. Though the young men affirm a sameness as South Asian Americans through shared racializations, they affirm difference through their religious, ethnic, and class backgrounds. In the process, they also set up difference from each other through particular athletic feats.
Stanley I. Thangaraj
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770351
- eISBN:
- 9780814762974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770351.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
The introduction discusses the ways in which racialization is a gendered experience in theoretical terms. An examination of basketball cultures in South Asian America showcases the ways in which ...
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The introduction discusses the ways in which racialization is a gendered experience in theoretical terms. An examination of basketball cultures in South Asian America showcases the ways in which racializations and the responses to racializations involve masculinity while connecting sport in a myriad of ways to the nation and diaspora. The introduction interrogates the conceptions of “manning up” and “browning out” while providing an outline of the book.Less
The introduction discusses the ways in which racialization is a gendered experience in theoretical terms. An examination of basketball cultures in South Asian America showcases the ways in which racializations and the responses to racializations involve masculinity while connecting sport in a myriad of ways to the nation and diaspora. The introduction interrogates the conceptions of “manning up” and “browning out” while providing an outline of the book.
Stanley I. Thangaraj
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770351
- eISBN:
- 9780814762974
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770351.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To ...
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South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on the South Asian–only basketball leagues common in major U.S. and Canadian cities to show that basketball for these South Asian American players is not simply a hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st-century America. The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian–only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. Faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed “too aggressive.” Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization—masculinity, race, class, and sexuality—are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship. One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities, Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and the U.S. in general.Less
South Asian American men are not usually depicted as ideal American men. They struggle against popular representations as either threatening terrorists or geeky, effeminate computer geniuses. To combat such stereotypes, some use sports as a means of performing a distinctly American masculinity. Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on the South Asian–only basketball leagues common in major U.S. and Canadian cities to show that basketball for these South Asian American players is not simply a hobby, but a means to navigate and express their identities in 21st-century America. The participation of young men in basketball is one platform among many for performing South Asian American identity. South Asian–only leagues and tournaments become spaces in which to negotiate the relationships between masculinity, race, and nation. Faced with stereotypes that portray them as effeminate, players perform sporting feats on the court to represent themselves as athletic. And though they draw on black cultural styles, they carefully set themselves off from African American players, who are deemed “too aggressive.” Accordingly, the same categories of their own marginalization—masculinity, race, class, and sexuality—are those through which South Asian American men exclude women, queer masculinities, and working-class masculinities, along with other racialized masculinities, in their effort to lay claim to cultural citizenship. One of the first works on masculinity formation and sport participation in South Asian American communities, Desi Hoop Dreams focuses on an American popular sport to analyze the dilemma of belonging within South Asian America in particular and the U.S. in general.
Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter explores the contradictory desires incited by the model minority stereotype by reading Justin Lin's 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow alongside Lauren Yee's 2008 play Ching Chong Chinaman. ...
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This chapter explores the contradictory desires incited by the model minority stereotype by reading Justin Lin's 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow alongside Lauren Yee's 2008 play Ching Chong Chinaman. Both Better Luck Tomorrow and Ching Chong Chinaman feature characters who attempt to expand their lives by doubling as their others or taking them on as surrogates. This chapter explains how the characters' efforts to play different types of Asian Americans are constrained by their own obligatory physical execution and unpredictable social impact. It suggests that Lin and Yee use the model minority stereotype as an occasion for dramatizing fissuress within Asian America that are provisionally crossed with the racial mundane as accomplice, but never completely bridged.Less
This chapter explores the contradictory desires incited by the model minority stereotype by reading Justin Lin's 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow alongside Lauren Yee's 2008 play Ching Chong Chinaman. Both Better Luck Tomorrow and Ching Chong Chinaman feature characters who attempt to expand their lives by doubling as their others or taking them on as surrogates. This chapter explains how the characters' efforts to play different types of Asian Americans are constrained by their own obligatory physical execution and unpredictable social impact. It suggests that Lin and Yee use the model minority stereotype as an occasion for dramatizing fissuress within Asian America that are provisionally crossed with the racial mundane as accomplice, but never completely bridged.
Stanley I. Thangaraj
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770351
- eISBN:
- 9780814762974
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770351.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores the social context and cartography of Atlanta through South Asian American pick-up basketball spaces. By situating the mosques in the racial landscape of the bible-belt, ...
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This chapter explores the social context and cartography of Atlanta through South Asian American pick-up basketball spaces. By situating the mosques in the racial landscape of the bible-belt, black-white U.S. South, the chapter explores how pick-up basketball presents an entrée into American-ness for young South Asian American men. Yet this entry into American-ness and ideas of meritocracy involves the exclusion of African American men and women from the sporting court. Furthermore, the chapter examines how South Asian American men perform an athletic masculinity through various basketball moves while signifying their class, race, and relation to immigration waves.Less
This chapter explores the social context and cartography of Atlanta through South Asian American pick-up basketball spaces. By situating the mosques in the racial landscape of the bible-belt, black-white U.S. South, the chapter explores how pick-up basketball presents an entrée into American-ness for young South Asian American men. Yet this entry into American-ness and ideas of meritocracy involves the exclusion of African American men and women from the sporting court. Furthermore, the chapter examines how South Asian American men perform an athletic masculinity through various basketball moves while signifying their class, race, and relation to immigration waves.
C. Winter Han
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479831951
- eISBN:
- 9781479824700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479831951.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This concluding chapter discusses how gay Asian American men are more interested in carving a social space that allows them to address both their gay and Asian American identities simultaneously ...
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This concluding chapter discusses how gay Asian American men are more interested in carving a social space that allows them to address both their gay and Asian American identities simultaneously rather than integrating themselves into the larger gay community. An example of this is how gay Asian American activists in Seattle deliberately choose to hold their events in Seattle's International District, the historic Asian American neighborhood. In this social space, they are able to reexamine taken-for-granted assumptions about who is Asian American, who is gay, and who gets to claim a physical and social space as their own. Also, doing so provides an opportunity for gay Asian American men to deeply embed themselves in Asian America and gay America.Less
This concluding chapter discusses how gay Asian American men are more interested in carving a social space that allows them to address both their gay and Asian American identities simultaneously rather than integrating themselves into the larger gay community. An example of this is how gay Asian American activists in Seattle deliberately choose to hold their events in Seattle's International District, the historic Asian American neighborhood. In this social space, they are able to reexamine taken-for-granted assumptions about who is Asian American, who is gay, and who gets to claim a physical and social space as their own. Also, doing so provides an opportunity for gay Asian American men to deeply embed themselves in Asian America and gay America.
A. Robert Lee (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824872946
- eISBN:
- 9780824877873
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824872946.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen ...
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Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.Less
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.
A. Robert Lee
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780824872946
- eISBN:
- 9780824877873
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824872946.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This essay gives account of Yamashita’s selected performance scripts gathered in Anime Wong and their bearing upon Asian American life. It gives due recognition to the role of fantasy, dada-ism, ...
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This essay gives account of Yamashita’s selected performance scripts gathered in Anime Wong and their bearing upon Asian American life. It gives due recognition to the role of fantasy, dada-ism, role-play. There is also emphasis upon the stagecraft involved, the pantomimic and kabuki sets, and the interactive use of dialogue, mask, costume, video, music and tableau.Less
This essay gives account of Yamashita’s selected performance scripts gathered in Anime Wong and their bearing upon Asian American life. It gives due recognition to the role of fantasy, dada-ism, role-play. There is also emphasis upon the stagecraft involved, the pantomimic and kabuki sets, and the interactive use of dialogue, mask, costume, video, music and tableau.
Tat-siong Benny Liew
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831622
- eISBN:
- 9780824869168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831622.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter aims to investigate how the interjections and interruptions from ancient apocalyptic traditions interact with the present of an “intrusive” and alien-ated (Asian) America, focusing ...
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This chapter aims to investigate how the interjections and interruptions from ancient apocalyptic traditions interact with the present of an “intrusive” and alien-ated (Asian) America, focusing primarily on the apocalyptic tradition that grows out of the book of Revelation in the New Testament. The chapter takes this approach for two reasons. First, it dismisses the notion that an origin—in this case, the book of Revelation—had an essence that, once identified, could dictate everything that comes afterward. The second reason concerns the issue of what is considered to be “appropriate” or “inappropriate” subject matter in the field of biblical studies. In this way, the chapter extends the scope of the biblical studies field to include the function of biblical texts in the wider world of literature and culture.Less
This chapter aims to investigate how the interjections and interruptions from ancient apocalyptic traditions interact with the present of an “intrusive” and alien-ated (Asian) America, focusing primarily on the apocalyptic tradition that grows out of the book of Revelation in the New Testament. The chapter takes this approach for two reasons. First, it dismisses the notion that an origin—in this case, the book of Revelation—had an essence that, once identified, could dictate everything that comes afterward. The second reason concerns the issue of what is considered to be “appropriate” or “inappropriate” subject matter in the field of biblical studies. In this way, the chapter extends the scope of the biblical studies field to include the function of biblical texts in the wider world of literature and culture.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804778701
- eISBN:
- 9780804783705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804778701.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In her 1976 book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston appears to assert the incoherence of Chinese American identity. Kingston occupies a place in the history ...
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In her 1976 book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston appears to assert the incoherence of Chinese American identity. Kingston occupies a place in the history of Asian American literature as a native informant of sorts despite consistently undermining assumptions about cultural authenticity. She has won admiration by discarding the restrictive identity politics of cultural nationalism in favor of an anti-racist politics that guards against the dangers of essentialism. Writing about Asian America, Kingston invites us not only to read, but also to listen. This chapter examines works by Kingston and how she deploys music and sound tropes to imagine forms of community free from the debilitating limits of identity politics. It also argues that Kingston differs from Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe with respect to treatment of rhythm because she remains deeply committed to a humanist politics through pacifism.Less
In her 1976 book The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston appears to assert the incoherence of Chinese American identity. Kingston occupies a place in the history of Asian American literature as a native informant of sorts despite consistently undermining assumptions about cultural authenticity. She has won admiration by discarding the restrictive identity politics of cultural nationalism in favor of an anti-racist politics that guards against the dangers of essentialism. Writing about Asian America, Kingston invites us not only to read, but also to listen. This chapter examines works by Kingston and how she deploys music and sound tropes to imagine forms of community free from the debilitating limits of identity politics. It also argues that Kingston differs from Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe with respect to treatment of rhythm because she remains deeply committed to a humanist politics through pacifism.
Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814786437
- eISBN:
- 9780814786451
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814786437.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of ...
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This book collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the chapters present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the changes in global power that have influenced the paths and experiences of migrants, from expatriate Indian maritime workers at the turn of the century, to Indian nurses during the Cold War, to post-9/11 detainees and deportees caught in the crossfire of the “War on Terror,” the chapters reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism. Driven by a shared sense of responsibility among the contributing scholars to alter the profile of South Asian migrants in the American public imagination, the book addresses the key issues that impact these migrants in the U.S., on the subcontinent, and in circuits of the transnational economy. The book provides tools with which to understand the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the place of South Asian migrants within it.Less
This book collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the chapters present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the changes in global power that have influenced the paths and experiences of migrants, from expatriate Indian maritime workers at the turn of the century, to Indian nurses during the Cold War, to post-9/11 detainees and deportees caught in the crossfire of the “War on Terror,” the chapters reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism. Driven by a shared sense of responsibility among the contributing scholars to alter the profile of South Asian migrants in the American public imagination, the book addresses the key issues that impact these migrants in the U.S., on the subcontinent, and in circuits of the transnational economy. The book provides tools with which to understand the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the place of South Asian migrants within it.
Eleanor Ty
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040887
- eISBN:
- 9780252099380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040887.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors ...
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This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.Less
This chapter looks at a selection of post-2000 Asian American films that feature Asian American protagonists who are 1.5 or second-generation immigrants. The Debut (dir. Gene Cajayon), Red Doors (dir. Georgia Lee), Saving Face (dir. Alice Wu), and Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) question the professional and financial ambitions that were hallmarks of the model minority ideal of the economically successful Asian American established in the 1960s. The films depict protagonists who find themselves unable to fulfill what Sara Ahmed calls the "happiness duty" and experience melancholia and depression. A number of these independent Asian American filmmakers explore non-heteronormative and non-conjugal ways of expressing love and passion, revealing the shifting values, transcultural affiliations and desires that are now part of the multiplicity of Asian North American identity.
R. Marie Griffith
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199931903
- eISBN:
- 9780199345779
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199931903.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The literature investigating the impact of religious pluralism on American women is scanty, and any projected conclusions are at this point partial and preliminary. The evidence does show that ...
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The literature investigating the impact of religious pluralism on American women is scanty, and any projected conclusions are at this point partial and preliminary. The evidence does show that encounters between women across religious boundaries have often resulted in profound disagreements that are explicitly grounded in gender norms and values, witness disputes between Catholic and Protestant women as well as between Muslim and Christian women over how each tradition treats them. American women have consistently used gender as a critical gauge for assessing religious traditions other than their own, as well as for articulating both the virtues and the vices of the religious communities to which they themselves belong. But if women's critiques of “other” religions have often rested on gendered grounds, so too have the models of cross-religious cooperation that appear in contemporary feminist accounts of women and pluralism.Less
The literature investigating the impact of religious pluralism on American women is scanty, and any projected conclusions are at this point partial and preliminary. The evidence does show that encounters between women across religious boundaries have often resulted in profound disagreements that are explicitly grounded in gender norms and values, witness disputes between Catholic and Protestant women as well as between Muslim and Christian women over how each tradition treats them. American women have consistently used gender as a critical gauge for assessing religious traditions other than their own, as well as for articulating both the virtues and the vices of the religious communities to which they themselves belong. But if women's critiques of “other” religions have often rested on gendered grounds, so too have the models of cross-religious cooperation that appear in contemporary feminist accounts of women and pluralism.
Arthur Versluis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199368136
- eISBN:
- 9780190201951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199368136.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Discusses 1960s religion, hippie religion, Asian religions in America; discusses the history of the counterculture and its religious significances.
Discusses 1960s religion, hippie religion, Asian religions in America; discusses the history of the counterculture and its religious significances.
