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Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

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Series: Race and American Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0195147006
ISBN13: 9780195147001
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 28 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

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