具体描述
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In thirteen essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to video art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans' interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. By a new generation of cultural critics, these essays reflect post-1965 Asian America; nuanced attention to issues of gender, sexuality, transnationality, and citizenship; and an unabashed appreciation for the pleasures of pop culture. This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributors based in Asian American studies, English, anthropology, sociology, and art history. They consider issues of cultural authenticity raised by Asian American participation in hip-hop and jazz, the emergence of an orientalist "Indo-chic" among U.S. youth culture, and the circulation of Vietnamese music variety shows. They examine the relationship between Chinese restaurants and American culture, issues of sexuality and race brought to the fore in the video performance art of a Bruce Lee-channeling drag queen, and immigrant television viewers' dismayed reactions to a "not Chinese enough" Chinese American chef. Taken together, the essays in Alien Encounters link scholarly engagement with popular culture to progressive political projects: any conception of a more democratic future must grapple with how people participate in political and cultural life, with how they imagine and express their affective relationships to such abstract notions as history, identity, and belonging.
作者简介
Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at Cornell University.
目录信息
Introduction / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu 1
I. Sounds Authentic?
1. Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang 35
2. Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz / Kevin Fellezs 69
II. Popular Places
3. Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction / Christopher A. Shinn 111
4. Visual Reconnaissance / Joan Kee 130
5. Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru / Indigo Som 150
6. The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu 161
III. Consuming Cultures
7. Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences / Martin F. Manalansan IV 179
8. Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media / Nhi T. Lieu 194
9. Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture / Sunaina Maira 221
IV. Troubled Technologies
10. Asian American Auto / Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 247
11. Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen 271
12. Race and Software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 305
Bibliography 335
Contributors 355
Index 359
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