Margo Machida

Unsettled Visions

Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of how artists of diverse Asian heritages and generational backgrounds use their artwork to articulate complex notions of identity and identification as Asians living in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 184mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341871
• ISBN-10: 0822341875
• Artikelnr.: 23910724

Autorenporträt

Margo Machida

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction: Art, Asian America, and the Social Imaginary: A Poetics of
Positionality 1
1. A Play of Positionalities: Reconsidering Identification 17
2. Othering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping 57
3. Trauma, Social Memory, and Art 120
4. Migration, Mixing, and Place 194
Epilogue: Toward an Ongoing Dialogue 271
Notes 283
Bibliography 321
Index 353