Immigrant Acts : On Asian American Cultural Politics /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowe, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Letterkunde.
Immigratie.
Aziaten.
Politiek.
Politik
Literatur
Kulturpolitik
Politics and literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Immigrants dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
USA.
Asiaten.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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 Dictee
  • Work, immigration, gender : Asian "American" women.

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