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Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War
Jodi Kim
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Description for Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War
Paperback. Series: Critical American Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 31 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
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. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony—one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia. The Asian American works analyzed here ... Read more
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. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony—one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia. The Asian American works analyzed here ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Critical American Studies
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816655922
SKU
V9780816655922
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About Jodi Kim
Jodi Kim is assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside.
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