Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images--literary, visual, and filmic--that confi…
"Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images--literary, visual, and filmic--that conf…
"This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian Ame…
"This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian Ame…
"This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian Ame…
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.
Demonstrating how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, this book looks at stereotyping in the software industry and computer games. The essays examine the intersections of discourses on race, gender, ethnicity and technology.
This text traces the historically changing image of non-white people in British advertising during the colonial period. It reveals the historical and production context of many advertising icons and also develops a detailed textual analysis of the images.
"Travel writing is a genre monopolized by Westerners. For centuries the preserve of Europeans who reported on the "exotic," it sought to make sense of other landscapes and cultures, but almost exclusively through a European prism of references." "This anthology, stretching from …
"Offering a broad overview of the Asian American experience, the Second Edition of Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues provides an accessible resource for all students interested in this expanding and important ethnic population. Although the contributors examine Asi…
The author examines stereotypes of Asians in the United States including Coolies, the Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Gook.
In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed b…
Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with discrimination.