Ends of empire : Asian American critique and the Cold War / / Jodi Kim
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| Autore: |
Kim Jodi <1970->
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| Titolo: |
Ends of empire : Asian American critique and the Cold War / / Jodi Kim
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973/.0495 |
| Soggetto topico: | Asian Americans - History |
| Asian Americans - Ethnic identity | |
| Asian Americans - Politics and government | |
| Asians in literature | |
| Asians in motion pictures | |
| Cold War | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations Asia |
| Asia Foreign relations United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 signific |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ends of empire |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4622-1 |
| 0-8166-7344-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814016603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Critical American studies series.