LEADER 03286nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910459204903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4529-4636-1 010 $a0-8166-7355-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000030319 035 $a(EBL)548073 035 $a(OCoLC)646067962 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000430328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11274610 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000430328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10452666 035 $a(PQKB)11568215 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001178174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC548073 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29787 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL548073 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399432 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525627 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000030319 100 $a20090325d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnfastened$b[electronic resource] $eglobality and Asian North American narratives /$fEleanor Ty 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-6508-7 311 $a0-8166-6507-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aUnfastened 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, 606 $aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanadian literature$xAsian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAsians$zCanada$xIntellectual life 606 $aAsian Americans in the motion picture industry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanadian literature$xAsian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAsians$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAsian Americans in the motion picture industry. 676 $a810.9/895 700 $aTy$b Eleanor Rose$f1958-$0222912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459204903321 996 $aUnfastened$92080401 997 $aUNINA