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Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans' interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by a new generation of cultural critics, these essays reflect post-1965 Asian America; the contributors pay nuanced attention to issues of gender, sexuality, transnationality, and citizenship, and they unabashedly take pleasure in pop culture.This interdisciplinary collection brings together contributors working in Asian American studies, English, anthropology, sociology, and art history. They consider issues of cultural authenticity raised by Asian American participation in hip hop and jazz, the emergence of an orientalist "Indo-chic" in U.S. youth culture, and the circulation of Vietnamese music variety shows. They examine the relationship between Chinese restaurants and American culture, issues of sexuality and race brought to the fore in the video performance art of a Bruce Lee-channeling drag king, and immigrant television viewers' dismayed reactions to a Chinese American chef who is "not Chinese enough." The essays in Alien Encounters demonstrate the importance of scholarly engagement with popular culture. Taking popular culture seriously reveals how people imagine and express their affective relationships to history, identity, and belonging.Contributors. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Kevin Fellezs, Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Joan Kee, Nhi T. Lieu, Sunaina Maira, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Sukhdev Sandhu, Christopher A. Shinn, Indigo Som, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Oliver Wang

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Sociologie, société et politique

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Cultural studies

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Asia

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	17 avril 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822389835
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	12 Mo

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Alien Encounters

Popular Culture in Asian America

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by Jennifer Hill. Typeset in Dante by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

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a 1. Sounds Authentic? one•••Rapping and Repping Asian: Race, Authenticity, and the Asian American MC 35 Oliver Wang twoSilenced but Not Silent: Asian Americans and Jazz 69 ••• Kevin Fellezs

e 2. Popular Places three•••Homicidal Tendencies: Violence and the Global Economy in Asian American Pulp Fiction 111 Christopher A. Shinn four•••Visual Reconnaissance 130 Joan Kee

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six The Guruand the Cultural Politics of Placelessness ••• Sukhdev Sandhu

twelve•••Race and Software Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

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ﬁve•••Chinese Restaurant Drive-Thru Indigo Som

3 3. Consuming Cultures seven•••Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food and Asian American Television Audiences 179 Martin F. Manalansan IV eight•••Performing Culture in Diaspora: Assimilation and Hybridity inParis by NightVideos and Vietnamese American Niche Media 194 Nhi T. Lieu

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Y 4. Troubled Technologies ten•••Asian American Auto/Biographies: The Gendered Limits of Consumer Citizenship in Import Subcultures 247 Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez eleven•••Bruce Lee I Love You: Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Queer Superstardom of JJ Chinois 271 Mimi Thi Nguyen

nine•••Indo-Chic: Late Capitalist Orientalism and Imperial Culture Sunaina Maira

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Acknowledgments

We would ﬁrst like to thank the contributors to this volume for their insightful essays, for their willingness to engage our queries and occasional odd ques-tions, and for their patience during the process of bringing the manuscript to publication. We would also like to thank Ken Wissoker, our editor at Duke University Press, for his guidance and conﬁdent encouragement (especially when this project was a mere notion), and Anitra Grisales, who provided both humor and unimpeachable editorial aid. Our anonymous reviewers helped us to clarify our arguments about, and investments in, popular culture in Asian America, for which we are grateful. We are pleased to acknowledge as well the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the University of Michigan; New York University; the Ohio State University; Vassar College; and Cornell University (and all our friends and colleagues at those institutions) for research, ﬁnancial, and intellectual support at various stages of this project. Finally, we are grateful to Logan Hill and Mark Murrmann for reminding us to watch television, listen to music, go to the movies, and always have fun with our work.

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Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

We loveThe Goonies(1985). This Hollywood studio adventure (pro-fband of teenage outsiders who go in search of a pirate treasure to duced by the movie mogul Steven Spielberg) features a ragtag save their ‘‘Goondocks’’ from foreclosure by country club developers. Set in a small town in the Paciﬁc Northwest,The Gooniesis populated by recognizable types: the sometimes cowardly fat kid (wearing both plaid pantsandHa- a waiian shirt), the wise-cracker (appropriately nicknamed ‘‘Mouth’’), the rich and arrogant jock (with the equally rich and arrogant father), the ditzy cheer-leader and her bespectacled best friend, and the shy, stuttering boy whose unwavering belief in the impossible guides their unlikely quest. We rooted for them all, but Data, the Asian immigrant kid exhibiting tendencies toward both the mad inventor and the secret agent, was our childhood favorite. Endear-ingly portrayed by Jonathan Ke Quan, Data made us believe that injustice ∞ could be overcome with a Schwinn and some smarts. The Gooniesdozens of other 1980s teen ﬁlms—from joined The Breakfast Club toThe Outsiders—that seemed to champion the misﬁt and misunder-stood. To be sure, not all of them featured the likes of Data. A product of their times, many betrayed the anti-Asian sentiments of their Reagan era origins. In the absurdist ﬁlmBetter O√ Deada pair of Japanese exchange stu- (1985), dents, whose pitch-perfect mimicry of television sportscaster Howard Cosell seemed to suggest a robotic inability to innovate, are put in their place by John

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