Unfastened : Globality and Asian North American Narratives /

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Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality--the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been--supposedly--surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty revea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Asians > Intellectual life
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry
American literature > Asian American authors
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans l'industrie cinematographique.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Asian Americans in the motion picture industry.
Asians > Canada > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Canadian literature > Asian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Canada
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The 1.5 generation : Filipino youth, transmigrancy, and masculinity
  • Recuperating wretched lives : Asian sex workers and the underside of nation building
  • "All of us are the same" : negotiating loss, witnessing disability
  • Feminist subversions : comedy and the carnivalesque
  • Shape-shifters and disciplined bodies : feminist tactics, science fiction, and fantasy
  • Scripting fertility ; desire and regeneration in Japanese North American literature.

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