Compositional Subjects
Enfiguring Asian/American Women
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2002
365 pages
978-0-8223-8351-2 (ISBN)
Description
Traces the way Asian American women have been represented in film, literature, and political economy.
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Duke University Press
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Laura Hyun Yi Kang is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Generic Fixations: Reading the Writing Self 29
2. Cinematic Projections: Marking the Desirous Body 71
3. Historical Reconfigurations: Delineating Asian Women as/not American Citizens 114
4. Disciplined Embodiments: Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor 164
5. Compositional Struggles: Re-membering Korean/American Women 215
Notes 271
Bibliography 323
Index 349
Introduction 1
1. Generic Fixations: Reading the Writing Self 29
2. Cinematic Projections: Marking the Desirous Body 71
3. Historical Reconfigurations: Delineating Asian Women as/not American Citizens 114
4. Disciplined Embodiments: Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor 164
5. Compositional Struggles: Re-membering Korean/American Women 215
Notes 271
Bibliography 323
Index 349
