Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America

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Mimi Thi Nguyen, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Duke University Press, 17.04.2007 - 365 Seiten
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans’ interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by a new generation of cultural critics, these essays reflect post-1965 Asian America; the contributors pay nuanced attention to issues of gender, sexuality, transnationality, and citizenship, and they unabashedly take pleasure in pop culture.

This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributors working in Asian American studies, English, anthropology, sociology, and art history. They consider issues of cultural authenticity raised by Asian American participation in hip hop and jazz, the emergence of an orientalist “Indo-chic” in U.S. youth culture, and the circulation of Vietnamese music variety shows. They examine the relationship between Chinese restaurants and American culture, issues of sexuality and race brought to the fore in the video performance art of a Bruce Lee–channeling drag king, and immigrant television viewers’ dismayed reactions to a Chinese American chef who is “not Chinese enough.” The essays in Alien Encounters demonstrate the importance of scholarly engagement with popular culture. Taking popular culture seriously reveals how people imagine and express their affective relationships to history, identity, and belonging.

Contributors. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Kevin Fellezs, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Joan Kee, Nhi T. Lieu, Sunaina Maira, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Sukhdev Sandhu, Christopher A. Shinn, Indigo Som, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Oliver Wang

 

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Introduction
1
Sounds Authentic?
33
Rapping and Repping Asian Race Authenticity and the Asian American MC
35
Silenced but Not Silent Asian Americans and Jazz
69
Popular Places
109
Homicidal Tendencies Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction
111
Visual Reconnaissance
130
Chinese Restaurant DriveThru
150
Performing Culture in Diaspora Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media
194
IndoChic Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture
221
Troubled Technologies
245
Asian American AutoBiographies The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures
247
Bruce Lee I Love You Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois
271
Race and Software
305
Bibliography
335
Contributors
355

The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness
161
Consuming Cultures
177
Cooking up the Senses A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences
179

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