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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture

In the past four decades the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies has grown enormously, expanding its areas of inquiry beyond the reflections on national identity and citizenship to encompass issues such as transnational and diasporic identities and communities; the workings of imperialism; the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality; and social justice/human rights in a global context. This project offers the largest and most comprehensive collection of scholarship on Asian American literature and culture to date. With original essays on everything from Asian American literary classics to experimental theater, from K-pop to online gaming, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture guides both established scholars and readers new to this study through the extensive landscape of Asian American writing and cultural production. More than one hundred essays on varied historical periods, geographical contexts, and artistic modes offer an extensive examination of racial representation and activism, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to literary work, ethnic communities, transnational and transpacific flows, and genres such as speculative fiction, the detective novel, and melodrama. Along with literary works from the late-19th century to the 21st century, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture covers a wide-ranging selection of Asian American theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film, television, and media. With its illuminating and profound commentary on Asian American writing and artistic practice, the collection surveys the historical foundations of this rich field, showing the exciting and profound new directions that currently drive the study of Asian American literary and cultural traditions.

Volume Editor

 Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Editorial Board

 Anita Mannur, Miami University

 Jennifer Ann Ho, University of Colorado Boulder

 Floyd Cheung, Smith College

 Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut

 
 

Articles

Accents and Asian American Representation in Contemporary Culture (Shilpa S. Davé)
Agriculture and Asian American Literature (Sarah D. Wald)
Archipelagoes and Oceania in Asian American and Pacific Islander Literary Studies (Harrod J. Suarez)
Asian American Art and Modernism (Tom Wolf)
Asian American Children's Literature (Sarah Park Dahlen)
Asian American Detective Fiction (Calvin McMillin)
Asian American Ecocriticism (Anita Mannur, Casey Kuhajda)
An Asian American Epistemology of Reading: Aiiieeeee! and Ekphrasis (Elda E. Tsou)
Asian American Experimental Theatre and Solo Performance (Dan Bacalzo)
Asian American Feminist Performance (Lucy M. S. P. Burns, Mana Hayakawa)
Asian American Graphic Narrative (Monica Chiu, Jeanette Roan)
Asian Americanist Critique and Listening Practices of Contemporary Popular Music (Summer Kim Lee)
Asian American Literary Reception and Readership (Tamara Bhalla)
The Asian American Movement and Critical Practice (Douglas S. Ishii)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Sport (Robert T. Hayashi)
Asian American Queer Performance (Vivian L. Huang)
Asian Americans and Digital Games (Christopher B. Patterson)
Asian Americans in Hip-Hop (Ninochka McTaggart, Oliver Wang)
Asian Americans in Opera: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Nancy Yunhwa Rao)
Asian Americans in Pre-World War II Cinema (Philippa Gates)
Asian Americans on Television (Alison Yeh Cheung, Kent A. Ono)
Asian American Theater and Drama from the 1960s to the 1990s (Esther Kim Lee)
Asian Diasporic Narratives of Return (Patricia P. Chu)
Asian North American Adoption Narratives (Jenny Heijun Wills)
Asians and Asian Americans and the Performing Arts prior to World War II (Krystyn R. Moon)
Asians and Asian Americans in Early Science Fiction (John Cheng)
Bilingualism in Asian American Literature (Jeehyun Lim)
Biopolitics and Asian America (Belinda Kong)
Bollywood and Asian American Culture (Jigna Desai)
Building Asian Canadian Literary Studies (Eleanor Ty)
The Chinese Exclusion Act and Early Asian American Literature (Ben Railton)
The Chinese in West Indian Fiction (Anne-Marie Lee-Loy)
The Cold War and Asian American Literature (Heidi Kim)
The Cold War and Asian Canadian Writing (Christine Kim, Christopher Lee)
Comedy, Humor, and Asian American Representation (Caroline Kyungah Hong)
Comparative African American and Asian American Literary Studies (Julia H. Lee)
Contemporary Asian American Art (Laura Kina)
Contemporary Asian American Dance (Yutian Wong)
Contemporary Voices in Asian American Lyric Poetry (Jennifer Chang)
Defining and Exploring Asian American Speculative Fiction (Stephen Hong Sohn)
Disability Studies and Asian American Literature (Kristina Chew)
Early Japanese American Literature, 1815-1900 (Andrew Way Leong)
Eugenics, Reproduction, and Asian American Literature (Asha Nadkarni)
Filipino American Literature (Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao)
Filipino American Visual Culture (Sarita Echavez See)
Food in Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies (Timothy K. August)
Global China in 21st Century Asian American Literature (Sunny Xiang)
Global India in 21st Century Asian American Literature (Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan)
Global South Korea and the K-Pop Phenomenon (Crystal S. Anderson)
Global South Korea in 21st Century Asian American Literature (Na-Rae Kim)
Hemispheric Approaches to Asian American Literature (Donald C. Goellnicht)
History and Memory: Narrating the Japanese American Incarceration (Christine C. So)
Hmong American Literature and Culture (Aline Lo, Kong Pheng Pha)
Human Rights and Asian American Literature and Culture (Crystal Parikh)
Illness, Disability, and Wounded Embodiment in Asian American Literature and Culture (James Kyung-Jin Lee)
Immigration and Asian American Autobiographical Writing: An Unstraightforward Story (Theresa A. Kulbaga)
Incarceration in Contemporary Asian American Literature and Culture (A.J. Yumi Lee)
Indian Dance in Diaspora: US And Australian Contexts (Priya Srinivasan)
Intersections of Arab American and Asian American Literature (Carol W.N. Fadda)
The Intersections of Latina/o and Asian American Literature (Susan Thananopavarn)
Korean North Americans in Film and Television (Eun Joo Kim)
The Korean War and Its Literary Legacies (Daniel Y. Kim)
Law and Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies (Stewart Chang)
Literary and Cultural Representations of Asians in Latin America and the Caribbean (Zelideth María Rivas)
Literary Perspectives on Asian Americans in the Midwest (Thomas Xavier Sarmiento)
Literary Perspectives on Asian Americans in the South (Frank Cha)
Marxism, Economic Theory, and Asian American Literary Studies (Mark Chiang)
Melodrama and Asian American Performance (Eunha Na)
Mixed Race Asian American Literature (Jennifer Ann Ho)
Mixed-Race Asian Americans and Contemporary Media and Culture (LeiLani Nishime)
Modernism and Asian American Writers (Audrey Wu Clark)
Narratives of Intimacy in Asian American Literature (Nicolyn Woodcock)
Narrative Theory and Asian American Literature (Yoon Sun Lee)
New Orleans and Asian American Literature and Culture (Marguerite Nguyen)
North Korea in Asian American Literature and Culture (Christine Hong)
Object Theory and Asian American Literature (Chad Shomura)
Parody, Pastiche, and Intertextuality in Asian American Novels (Amy C. Tang)
Performance Theory and Asian American Literature and Culture (Ju Yon Kim)
The Posthuman Subject in/of Asian American Literature (Michelle N. Huang)
Queer of Color Critique and Queer Asian North American Women’s Literature (Martin Joseph Ponce)
Queer South Asian Diasporas (Kareem Khubchandani)
Reading South Asian American Literature (Rajini Srikanth)
Revisiting Asian American Poetics (Juliana Chang)
The Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II, and Asian American Antifascism (Christopher Vials)
Settler Colonialism in Asian North American Representation (Iyko Day)
Sino Caribbean Performance and Music (Tzarina T. Prater)
South Asian American Visual Culture and Representation (Bakirathi Mani)
Sri Lankan American Literature and Culture (Dinidu Karunanayake)
Strategic Hybridity in Early Chinese and Japanese American Literature (Floyd Cheung)
Transnationalism and Asian American Performance (Elizabeth W. Son)
Transpacific Femininities (Denise Cruz)
Transpacific Spaces and (East and Southeast) Asian Canadian Literature (Joanne Leow)
The Transpacific Subject in Asian American Culture (Erin Suzuki, Aimee Bahng)
(The) Transpacific Turns (Tina Chen)
Vietnamese American Literature (Michele Janette)
Vietnamese Canadian Refugee Aesthetics (Vinh Nguyen)
The Vietnam War and Asian American Literature (Josephine Nock-Hee Park)
The Vietnam War in Film (Sylvia Shin Huey Chong)
The View from Another Shore: An Island-Specific Approach to Literary Criticism (Seri Luangphinith)
The War on Terror and South Asian American Narrative Representation (Anantha Sudhakar)
Yellowface Performance: Historical and Contemporary Contexts (Josephine Lee)