03252nam 2200661Ia 450 991078506360332120230725023721.01-4529-4636-10-8166-7355-1(CKB)2670000000030319(EBL)548073(OCoLC)646067962(SSID)ssj0000430328(PQKBManifestationID)11274610(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430328(PQKBWorkID)10452666(PQKB)11568215(StDuBDS)EDZ0001178174(MiAaPQ)EBC548073(MdBmJHUP)muse29787(Au-PeEL)EBL548073(CaPaEBR)ebr10399432(CaONFJC)MIL525627(EXLCZ)99267000000003031920090325d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnfastened[electronic resource] globality and Asian North American narratives /Eleanor TyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (216 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6508-7 0-8166-6507-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The 1.5 generation : Filipino youth, transmigrancy, and masculinity -- Recuperating wretched lives : Asian sex workers and the underside of nation building -- "All of us are the same" : negotiating loss, witnessing disability -- Feminist subversions : comedy and the carnivalesque -- Shape-shifters and disciplined bodies : feminist tactics, science fiction, and fantasy -- Scripting fertility ; desire and regeneration in Japanese North American literature.Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality-the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been-supposedly-surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla,American literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismCanadian literatureAsian authorsHistory and criticismAsian AmericansIntellectual lifeAsiansCanadaIntellectual lifeAsian Americans in the motion picture industryAmerican literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Canadian literatureAsian authorsHistory and criticism.Asian AmericansIntellectual life.AsiansIntellectual life.Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.810.9/895Ty Eleanor Rose1958-222912MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785063603321Unfastened3694227UNINA