{"product_id":"orientations-9780822327394","title":"Orientations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centers, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in ‘Asia,’ ‘America,’ and the fields that figure and are configured by them.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of \u003ci\u003eMargins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora \/ Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa \u003cbr\u003e I. Investments and Interventions \u003cbr\u003e (Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? \/ Dorinne Kondo \u003cbr\u003e (Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre \/ Karen Shimakawa \u003cbr\u003e Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space \/ Russell Leong \u003cbr\u003e Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? \/ Sharon K. Hom \u003cbr\u003e II. Translating Knowledge \u003cbr\u003e Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies \/ Dipesh Chakrabarty \u003cbr\u003e The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s \u003ci\u003eMulberry and Peach\u003c\/i\u003e in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices \/ Sau-Ling C. Wong \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBiyuti\u003c\/i\u003e in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States \/ Martin F. Manalansan IV \u003cbr\u003e Missile Internationalism \/ Kuan-Hsing Chen \u003cbr\u003e III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders \u003cbr\u003e Leading Questions \/ Rey Chow \u003cbr\u003e Modeling the Nation: The Asian\/American Split \/ David Palumbo-Liu \u003cbr\u003e Postwar Japan \/ Yoshikuni Igarashi \u003cbr\u003e Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies \/ R. Radhakrishnan \u003cbr\u003e IV. Asian\/American Epistemologies \u003cbr\u003e Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant \/ Lisa Lowe \u003cbr\u003e “Imaginary Borders” \/ Kandice Chuh \u003cbr\u003e “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now \/ George Lipsitz \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406028054871,"sku":"9780822327394","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327394.jpg?v=1730494294","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/orientations-9780822327394","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}