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Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.



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Introduction: Unsettling Hermeneutics and Global Nonalignments, 1. Cold War Logics, Cold War Poetics: Conjuring the Specter of a Red Asia, 2. The El Dorado of Commerce: China’s Billion Bellies, 3. Asian America’s Japan: The Perils of Gendered Racial Rehabilitation, 4. The Forgotten War: Korean America’s Conditions of Possibility, 5. The War-Surplus of Our New Imperialism: Vietnam, Masculinist Hypervisibility, and the Politics of (Af)filiationEpilogue: Imagining an End to Empire, Acknowledgments, Notes, Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/03/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816655922, 978-0816655922
      ISBN10: 0816655928

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.



      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Unsettling Hermeneutics and Global Nonalignments, 1. Cold War Logics, Cold War Poetics: Conjuring the Specter of a Red Asia, 2. The El Dorado of Commerce: China’s Billion Bellies, 3. Asian America’s Japan: The Perils of Gendered Racial Rehabilitation, 4. The Forgotten War: Korean America’s Conditions of Possibility, 5. The War-Surplus of Our New Imperialism: Vietnam, Masculinist Hypervisibility, and the Politics of (Af)filiationEpilogue: Imagining an End to Empire, Acknowledgments, Notes, Index

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