03339nam 2200745Ia 450 991081401660332120200520144314.01-4529-4622-10-8166-7344-6(CKB)2670000000030304(EBL)548058(OCoLC)646067958(SSID)ssj0000416849(PQKBManifestationID)11270085(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416849(PQKBWorkID)10436478(PQKB)11260039(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177299(MiAaPQ)EBC548058(MdBmJHUP)muse29770(Au-PeEL)EBL548058(CaPaEBR)ebr10399438(CaONFJC)MIL525786(EXLCZ)99267000000003030420091023d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnds of empire Asian American critique and the Cold War /Jodi Kim1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (316 p.)Critical American studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-5592-8 0-8166-5591-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 significCritical American studies series.Asian AmericansHistoryAsian AmericansEthnic identityAsian AmericansPolitics and governmentAsians in literatureAsians in motion picturesCold WarUnited StatesForeign relationsAsiaAsiaForeign relationsUnited StatesAsian AmericansHistory.Asian AmericansEthnic identity.Asian AmericansPolitics and government.Asians in literature.Asians in motion pictures.Cold War.973/.0495Kim Jodi1970-1645163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814016603321Ends of empire3991473UNINA