LEADER 03375nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910459213203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4529-4622-1 010 $a0-8166-7344-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000030304 035 $a(EBL)548058 035 $a(OCoLC)646067958 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000416849 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270085 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000416849 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10436478 035 $a(PQKB)11260039 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC548058 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL548058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10399438 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525786 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000030304 100 $a20091023d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnds of empire$b[electronic resource] $eAsian American critique and the Cold War /$fJodi Kim 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 1 $aCritical American studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-5592-8 311 $a0-8166-5591-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aEnds of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony-one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was signific 410 0$aCritical American studies series. 606 $aAsian Americans$xHistory 606 $aAsian Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aAsian Americans$xPolitics and government 606 $aAsians in literature 606 $aAsians in motion pictures 606 $aCold War 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xForeign relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aAsians in literature. 615 0$aAsians in motion pictures. 615 0$aCold War. 676 $a973/.0495 700 $aKim$b Jodi$f1970-$0937812 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459213203321 996 $aEnds of empire$92112504 997 $aUNINA