This intriguing book looks at issues of immigration, postmodern identity and difference through the lives of South Asians in Britain.
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An exploration of ethnic minority cultural change, this text examines first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. It argues that the nostalgia for culture obscures the complexities of change in migrant minority lives.
A peculiar obsession : the Chinese and Japanese problem in the "international city"--A wide-open town? White and heterosexual supremacy in permissive San Francisco -- "Deliver me from the brainy woman" : the modern woman and the geisha -- Prostitution proliferates : "Mrs. Flirty…
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the lives of notable Asian American writers in all genres, as well as synopses and analyses of their works. Includes bibliographies.
Introduction -- Veterans and draft resisters -- Learning to love Ho Chi Minh -- Rebellion and compromise -- Desire and resistance -- Intrasettler conflict -- Epilogue
"Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America tells the story of the making of a shared Latinx and Asian America over the past fifty years. Historically this solidarity has been difficult to see because Asian and Latinx immigrants have often been described in opposing terms of des…
This book answers recent calls in criticism and theory to examine the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popu…
Expulsion of a minority: essays on Ugandan Asians
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Expulsion of a minority: essays on Ugandan Asians
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Prologue: once upon a time in the west -- Imperialism, nationalism, and the coming of Asians to Colorado -- Chinese pioneers: looking for work, finding violence instead -- Exotic oasis in the Queen City of the west -- Importing Chinese prostitutes, excluding Chinese wives -- The…
"Asian American filmmakers and video artists have created a substantial, diverse, and challenging body of work that reimagines the cultural and political representation of Asian Americans. Yet much of this work remains unknown. For Glen M. Mimura, Asian American cinema is the sp…
"This book offers a vibrant array of contemporary Asian North American LGBT scholarship and cultural productions from essays, poetry, visual art, and memoirs of activists and scholars"--.