Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms - Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy Hom, Betty Kano, Flo Oy Wong, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Theresa H.K. Cha, and Hung Liu are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of their time, and their art is examined in light of the question of what it means to be an Asian American artist. Laura Fantone's exploration of this dynamic, understudied artistic community begets a sensitive and timely reflection on the state of Asian American women in the USA and in Californian cultural institutions.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Visuality, Gender, and Asian America.- 2. Asian American Art for the People.- 3. Traces and Visions of In-Betweens.- 4. AAWAA: Visibility, Pan-Asian Identity, and the Limits of Community.- 5. Red and Gold Washing.- 6. Opacities: Local Venues, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Laura Fantone is Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her commitment to interdisciplinarity has led her to write on video games, reproductive technologies, labor and precarity, and ethnic minorities and refugees in Europe; to produce two documentaries distributed in Italy and in the USA; and to curate two art shows.  

Zusammenfassung

Provides insight into a rich yet understudied population in American art history


Explores the nuance of how Asian American identities have changed throughout the twentieth century to the present

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Laura Fantone
• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781137506696
• ISBN: 978-1-137-50669-6
• Seiten: 247
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 217 mm x 18 mm
• Gewicht: 478 g
• Illustration: XIII, 247 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.
• Serien: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture; Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; Soziologie, Asien, Amerika, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, The arts: general issues, Arts, Ethnology, Social Sciences, Social & cultural anthropology, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, United States—Study and teaching, American Culture, Kunst: allgemeine Themen