Immigrant Acts - On Asian American Cultural Politics

"Immigrant Acts" is a compelling and persuasively written presentation of Asian American 'cultural production.' It is both an exciting and instructive volume."--Barbara Harlow, The University of Texas at Austin

List of contents

Preface ix

1. Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique 1

2. Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies 37

3. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences 60

4. Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism 84

5. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History 97

6. Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee 128

7. Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women 154

Epilogue 174

Notes 177

Bibliography 223

Index 241

About the author

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms and coeditor (with David Lloyd) of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press).

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Lowe, Lowe, Lisa Lowe
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.1996
• EAN: 9780822318583
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1858-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 680 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Anthropologie, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Politische Bildung und Zivilgesellschaft