Demonstrates how Asian-Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry to the techno-orientalism of computer games, these associations weigh heavily on contemporary discourses of race.
Demonstrates how Asian-Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry...
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the software industry to the techno-orientalism of computer games, these associations weigh heavily on contemporary discourses of race, ethnicity, gender and technology. The 13 essays gathered here critically examine the intersections of these discourses in mainstream media including novels and film, in alternative currents such as chat rooms and comic books, and in real life. This contribution to the study of cyberculture illuminates the complex...
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology. From model minority stereotypes in the...
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume,...
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field o...
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works.
The volume focuses on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander's Nampally Road, Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its...
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the stud...
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works.
Each essay contains information about the work (e.g., its publication or production history), its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography. The Resource...
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the stud...
