Immigrant acts : on Asian American cultural politics

Immigrant acts : on Asian American cultural politics / Lisa Lowe.

In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S....

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Main Author: Lowe, Lisa (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Immigrants in literature
Politics and literature
Kulturpolitik
Literatur
Politik
Politiek.
Aziaten.
Immigratie.
Letterkunde.
United States
USA
Asiaten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Immigration, citizenship, racialization : Asian American critique
  • Canon, institutionalization, identity : Asian American studies
  • Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : Asian American differences
  • Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism
  • Decolonization, displacement, disidentification : writing and the question of history
  • Unfaithful to the original : the subject of Dictée
  • Work, immigration, gender : Asian "American" women.

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