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"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
Sommario
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
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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).
Riassunto
Discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the US nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture.
