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Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in place? Suggesting new directions for studies of the Asian diaspora, the prominent scholars who contribute to this volume raise important questions about the genealogies of these fields, their mutual imbrication, and their relationship to other disciplinary formations, including American and ethnic studies.With its recurrent themes of transnationalism, globalization, and postcoloniality, Orientations considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and a historical look at the journal Amerasia. Exploring the translation of knowledge from one community to another, other contributions consider such issues as Filipino immigrants' strategies for enacting Asian American subjectivity and the link between area studies and the journal Subaltern Studies. In a section that focuses on how disciplines-or borders-form, one essay discusses "orientalist melancholy," while another focuses on the construction of the Asian American persona during the Cold War. Other topics in the volume include the role Asian immigrants play in U.S. racial politics, Japanese American identity in postwar Japan, Asian American theater, and the effects of Asian and Asian American studies on constructions of American identity.Contributors. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Rey Chow, Kandice Chuh, Sharon Hom, Yoshikuni Igarashi, Dorinne Kondo, Russell Leong, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Martin F. Manalansan IV, David Palumbo-Liu, R. Radhakrishnan, Karen Shimakawa, Sau-ling C. Wong

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

03 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822381259

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa,

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ORIENTATIONS

Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

Duke University Press

Durham and London

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‘‘The Eclipse of Kuan-yin and Rahu’’ in ‘‘Creating Performa-tive Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space’’ by Russell Leong appears as ‘‘Eclipse’’ inPhoenix Eyes and Other Storiesby Russell Leong (Seattle and London: the University of Washing-ton Press, ) –. Reprinted by permission of the Uni-versity of Washington Press. ‘‘Notes toward a Conversation between Area Studies and Di-asporic Studies’’ by Dipesh Chakrabarty appears inPublic Cul-ture, no.  (). ‘‘Modelling the Nation: the Asian/American Split’’ by David Palumbo-Liu appears as ‘‘Paciﬁc America: Introjection and the Beginnings of Modern Asian America’’ inAsian/American: His-torical Crossings of a Racial Frontierby David Palumbo-Liu (Stan-ford: Stanford University Press, ) –. Reprinted with the permission of Stanford University Press. ‘‘Leading Questions’’ by Rey Chow appears as ‘‘Introduction: Leading Questions’’ inWriting Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studiesby Rey Chow (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, ) –. Reprinted with the permission of Indiana University Press.

©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Typeset in Monotype Garamond by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

We dedicate this book to our teacher, Susan Jeﬀords. Thank you.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora     

Investments and Interventions

(Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy?  

(Re)Viewing an Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre  

Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space  

Cross-Discipline Traﬃcking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It?  . 

Translating Knowledge

Notes toward a Conversation between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies  

The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh’sMulberry and Peachin Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices - . 

Biyutiin Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States  .  

III

Missile Internationalism - 

Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders

Leading Questions  

Modelling the Nation: The Asian/American Split  -

In-Betweens in a Hybrid Nation: Construction of Japanese American Identity in Postwar Japan  

Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjacencies . 

Asian/American

Epistemologies

Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant  

‘‘Imaginary Borders’’  

‘‘To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped’’: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now  

References

Contributors

Index

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Acknowledgments

This book quite literally would not exist had it not been for the support we received from many people along the way. Our ﬁrst thanks go to Susan Jef-fords, to whom this work is dedicated, for pushing us to ‘‘think big.’’ We are equally grateful to Ken Wissoker of Duke University Press, whose faith in this project was instrumental in its completion, and to this volume’s con-tributors for their exceptional patience and commitment. Katie Courtland and Justin Faerber, also at Duke University Press, have our thanks as well for their knowledgeable guidance, especially toward this project’s completion. Orientationsis the culmination of work begun at a colloquium entitled ‘‘Disciplining Asia: Theorizing Studies in the Asia Diaspora,’’ at the Univer-sity of Washington in Seattle, – May . For both material and less tan-gible but equally important support, many at the University of Washington have our gratitude: The colloquium itself was sponsored by the Department of English, The Graduate School, the Oﬃce of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, The Center for the Humanities, The Hilen Endowment, The Department of Anthropology, and The Jackson School for International Studies and its China, Korea, South Asia, and International Studies Programs, with addi-tional support from the Departments of American Ethnic Studies, Asian Languages & Literatures, History, and Women Studies. We are particularly grateful to Ross Posnock, Thomas Lockwood, Shawn Wong, Leroy Searle, and especially, Tani Barlow, for their generous eﬀorts on our behalf. Susan Williams and the other members of the Department of English’s main oﬃce provided instrumental administrative support. We would be remiss were we not also to thank participants in the col-loquium itself, some of whom ultimately do not have pieces in this an-

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