Race and Resistance - Literature and Politics in Asian America

Zusatztext An excellent seminar resource for upper-division undergraduates and above. Klappentext In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture. Zusammenfassung This text examines Asian America - its idealization by its intellectuals, its saturation with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by its ideological diversity. Using literature as a tool, the author suggests that Asian American intellectuals must examine their own assumptions.

Product details

• Authors: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Viet Thanh (Assistant Professor of English Nguyen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9780195147001
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514700-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Race and American Culture; Race and American Culture; Race & American Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories