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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459213203321

Autore

Kim Jodi <1970->

Titolo

Ends of empire [[electronic resource] ] : Asian American critique and the Cold War / / Jodi Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4529-4622-1

0-8166-7344-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Critical American studies

Disciplina

973/.0495

Soggetti

Asian Americans - History

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Asian Americans - Politics and government

Asians in literature

Asians in motion pictures

Cold War

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Asia

Asia Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: unsettling hermeneutics and global nonalignments -- Cold war logics, cold war poetics: conjuring the specter of a red Asia -- The El Dorado of commerce: China's billion bellies -- Asian America's Japan: the perils of gendered racial rehabilitation -- The forgotten war: Korean America's conditions of possibility -- The war-surplus of our new imperialism: Vietnam, masculinist hypervisibility, and the politics of (af)filiation -- Epilogue: imagining an end to empire.

Sommario/riassunto

Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She



unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony-one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was signific