California Dreaming - Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary (Hardcover)

California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here, "California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the "Golden State" as the embodiment of "frontier mentality" and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California's landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds "sensing" and "imagining" place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.

General

Imprint:	University of Hawaii Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
Release date:	October 2020
Editors:	Christine Bacareza Balance • Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
Series editors:	Russell Leong • David K. Yoo
Contributors:	Christine Bacareza Balance • Tracy Lachica Buenavista • Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns • Leilani Chan • Wendy Cheng • Dilan D'Lo Srijaerajah
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	318
ISBN-13:	978-0-8248-7206-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-8248-7206-1
Barcode:	9780824872069

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