Alien Encounters ：Popular Culture in Asian America

Publication subTitle ：Popular Culture in Asian America

Author： Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780822389835

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822339229

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822339106

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology;K7 Americas History;Q983 physique anthropology

Keyword： Asian Americans -- Intellectual life., Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity., Asian Americans -- Social life and customs., Asian Americans -- Study and teaching., Popular culture -- United States., United States -- Intellectual life., United States -- Social life and customs., United States -- Ethnic relations.

Language： ENG

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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 hist

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Sounds Authentic?

One •••Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC

Two •••Silenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz

2. Popular Places

Three •••Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction

Four •••Visual Reconnaissance

Five •••Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru

Six •••The Guru and the Cultural Politics of Placelessness

3. Consuming Cultures

Seven •••Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences

Eight •••Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity in Paris by Night Videos and Vietnamese American Niche Media

Nine •••Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture

4. Troubled Technologies

Ten •••Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures

Eleven •••Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois

Twelve •••Race and Software

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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