Ends of Empire : Asian American Critique and the Cold War.

By: Kim, JodiMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Critical American StudiesPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816673445Subject(s): Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity | Asian Americans -- History | Asian Americans -- Politics and government | Asians in literature | Asians in motion pictures | Cold War | United States -- Foreign relations -- AsiaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ends of Empire : Asian American Critique and the Cold WarDDC classification: 973/.0495 LOC classification: E184.A75 -- K54 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Unsettling Hermeneutics and Global Nonalignments -- 1. COLD WAR LOGICS, COLD WAR POETICS: Conjuring the Specter of a Red Asia -- 2. THE EL DORADO OF COMMERCE: China's Billion Bellies -- 3. ASIAN AMERICA'S JAPAN: The Perils of Gendered Racial Rehabilitation -- 4. THE FORGOTTEN WAR: Korean America's Conditions of Possibility -- 5. THE WAR-SURPLUS OF OUR NEW IMPERIALISM: Vietnam, Masculinist Hypervisibility, and the Politics of (Af)filiation -- EPILOGUE: Imagining an End to Empire -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony-one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia.The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of what Kim reveals as transnational "Cold War compositions," which are at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and its critical relationship to Cold War history.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Unsettling Hermeneutics and Global Nonalignments -- 1. COLD WAR LOGICS, COLD WAR POETICS: Conjuring the Specter of a Red Asia -- 2. THE EL DORADO OF COMMERCE: China's Billion Bellies -- 3. ASIAN AMERICA'S JAPAN: The Perils of Gendered Racial Rehabilitation -- 4. THE FORGOTTEN WAR: Korean America's Conditions of Possibility -- 5. THE WAR-SURPLUS OF OUR NEW IMPERIALISM: Vietnam, Masculinist Hypervisibility, and the Politics of (Af)filiation -- EPILOGUE: Imagining an End to Empire -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony-one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia.The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of what Kim reveals as transnational "Cold War compositions," which are at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and its critical relationship to Cold War history.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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