{"product_id":"double-agency-9780804751865","title":"Double Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDouble Agency\u003c\/i\u003e, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the bookimpersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authoritythus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty\/disloyalty, real\/fake, and Asian\/American, \u003ci\u003eDouble Agency\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as im-personationsdynamic perfo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...Chen provides an intelligent, well-organized study that will be immediately useful in the field. With this book, the field of Asian American studies comes of age.\"--\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...the sophistication with which Chen develops her critical framework and the deftness of her close readings make \u003ci\u003eDouble Agency\u003c\/i\u003e an insightful and influential addition to the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Asian American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Acknowledgments  Preface: On Impersonation and the Nature of the Not-so-secret Agent  PART I: IMPERSONATION AND STEREOTYPE  Chapter One: Impersonation and Double Agency--Theorizing the Practice,   Practicing the Theory  Chapter Two: Dissecting the \"Devil Doctor\": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax   Rohmer's Fu Manchu  Chapter Three: De\/Posing Stereotype on the Asian American Stage  PART II: DOUBLE AGENTS, DOUBLE AGENCY  Chapter Four: Bodily Negotiations: The Politics of Performance in Hualing Nieh's   Mulberry and Peach  Chapter Five: Shamanism and the Subject(s) of History in Nora Okja Keller's   Comfort Woman  Chapter Six: Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts: the Double(d) Agent of   Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker  Coda  Works Cited  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405562388823,"sku":"9780804751865","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751865.jpg?v=1730492841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/double-agency-9780804751865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}