Ends of empire
Subtitle: Asian American critique and the Cold War
By: Jodi Kim.
Series: Critical American studies
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816655915; 9780816655922
Subjects: Asian Americans -- History; Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Asian Americans -- Politics and government; Asians in literature; Asians in motion pictures; Cold War; United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia; Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unsettling hermeneutics and global nonalignments; title: Cold war logics, cold war poetics: conjuring the specter of a red Asia; title: The El Dorado of commerce: China's billion bellies; title: Asian America's Japan: the perils of gendered racial rehabilitation; title: The forgotten war: Korean America's conditions of possibility; title: The war-surplus of our new imperialism: Vietnam, masculinist hypervisibility, and the politics of (af)filiation; title: Epilogue: imagining an end to empire.