04752nam 2200721 a 450 991078640530332120210114113334.00-8223-7901-510.1515/9780822379010(CKB)3710000000124917(CaPaEBR)ebrary10881103(SSID)ssj0001227202(PQKBManifestationID)12459004(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001227202(PQKBWorkID)11274370(PQKB)10641368(MiAaPQ)EBC3007850(DE-B1597)553071(DE-B1597)9780822379010(OCoLC)1144344953(EXLCZ)99371000000012491720150424d1996|||| s|| |engur|||||||||||txtccrImmigrant Acts : On Asian American Cultural Politics[electronic resource]Durham, NC, USADuke University Press19960901Duke University Press1 online resource (269 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-306-86754-1 0-8223-1858-X Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique -- 2 Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies -- 3 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences -- 4 Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism -- 5 Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History -- 6 Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee -- 7 Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture.Lowe argues that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the “foreigner-within.” In Immigrant Acts, she argues that rather than attesting to the absorption of cultural difference into the universality of the national political sphere, the Asian immigrant—at odds with the cultural, racial, and linguistic forms of the nation—displaces the temporality of assimilation. Distance from the American national culture constitutes Asian American culture as an alternative site that produces cultural forms materially and aesthetically in contradiction with the institutions of citizenship and national identity. Rather than a sign of a “failed” integration of Asians into the American cultural sphere, this critique preserves and opens up different possibilities for political practice and coalition across racial and national borders.In this uniquely interdisciplinary study, Lowe examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings of immigration in relation to Asian Americans. Extending the range of Asian American critique, Immigrant Acts will interest readers concerned with race and ethnicity in the United States, American cultures, immigration, and transnationalism.LITERARY CRITICISMbisacAmerican / Asian AmericanbisacAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcAsian American authors20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and literatureHistoryAsian AmericansIntellectual lifeAsian Americans in literatureImmigrants in literatureEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCAmerican LiteratureHILCCLITERARY CRITICISMAmerican / Asian AmericanAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcAsian American authorsPolitics and literatureHistoryAsian AmericansIntellectual lifeAsian Americans in literatureImmigrants in literatureEnglishLanguages & LiteraturesAmerican Literature810.9/895Lowe Lisa758329PQKBBOOK9910786405303321Immigrant Acts : On Asian American Cultural Politics3701941UNINA