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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809025703321

Titolo

Alien encounters : popular culture in Asian America / / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-3910-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NguyenMimi Thi <1974->

TuThuy Linh N

Disciplina

305.895/073

305.895073

Soggetti

Asian Americans - Intellectual life

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Asian Americans - Social life and customs

Asian Americans - Study and teaching

Popular culture - United States

United States Intellectual life

United States Social life and customs

United States Ethnic relations

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 (p. [335]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Rapping and repping Asian : race, authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang -- Silenced but not silent : Asian Americans and jazz / Kevin Fellezs -- Homicidal tendencies : violence and the global economy in Asian American pulp fiction / Christopher A. Shinn -- Visual reconnaissance / Joan Kee -- Chinese restaurant drive-thru / Indigo Som -- The guru and the cultural politics of placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu -- Cooking up the senses : a critical embodied approach to the study of food and Asian American television audiences / Martin F. Manalansan -- Performing culture in diaspora : assimilation and hybridity in Paris by night videos and Vietnamese American niche media / Nhi T. Lieu -- Indo-Chic : late capitalist orientalism and imperial culture / Sunaina Maira -- Asian American auto/biographies : the gendered limits of consumer citizenship in import subcultures /



Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez -- Bruce Lee I love you : discourses of race and masculinity in the queer superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Race and software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows.