LEADER 04752nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910786405303321 005 20210114113334.0 010 $a0-8223-7901-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822379010 035 $a(CKB)3710000000124917 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10881103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001227202 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12459004 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001227202 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11274370 035 $a(PQKB)10641368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007850 035 $a(DE-B1597)553071 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822379010 035 $a(OCoLC)1144344953 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000124917 100 $a20150424d1996|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImmigrant Acts : On Asian American Cultural Politics$b[electronic resource] 210 $aDurham, NC, USA$cDuke University Press$d19960901 210 $cDuke University Press 215 $a1 online resource (269 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-306-86754-1 311 $a0-8223-1858-X 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1 Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique -- $t2 Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies -- $t3 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences -- $t4 Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism -- $t5 Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History -- $t6 Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee -- $t7 Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$2bisac 606 $aAmerican / Asian American$2bisac 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc$xAsian American authors$y20th century$zUnited States 606 $aPolitics and literature$xHistory 606 $aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aImmigrants in literature 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM 615 7$aAmerican / Asian American 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc$xAsian American authors 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature 615 0$aImmigrants in literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aAmerican Literature 676 $a810.9/895 700 $aLowe$b Lisa$0758329 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786405303321 996 $aImmigrant Acts : On Asian American Cultural Politics$93701941 997 $aUNINA