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The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now
sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humor, formal
invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen
rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal
memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood,
colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his
trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep
emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age
of four, Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of
Ban Mê Thuột and come to the USA as refugees. After being
removed from his brother and parents and homed with a family on his
own, Nguyen is later allowed to resettle into his own family in
suburban San José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny
façade of what he calls AMERICATM. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen
is nine, while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his
parents have been shot while working at their grocery store, the
S iGòn Mới, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of
fruit with a sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the
blood-stirring drama of the films of the Vietnam War such as
Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen into an existential crisis: how can he
be both American and Vietnamese, both the killer and the person
being killed? When he learns about an adopted sister who has stayed
back in Vietnam, and ultimately visits her, he grows to understand
just how much his parents have left behind. And as his parents age,
he worries increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes
that some of their older wounds are reopening. Profound in its
emotions and brilliant in its thinking about cultural power, A Man
of Two Faces explores the necessity of both forgetting and of
memory, the promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the
exceptional life story of one of the most original and important
writers working today.
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now
sold over one million copies worldwide With insight, humour, formal
invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Nguyen rewinds the
film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by
acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and
ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark
sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional
openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four,
Nguyen and his family are forced to flee his hometown of Ban Mê
Thu?t and come to the USA as refugees. After being removed from his
brother and parents and homed with a family on his own, Nguyen is
later allowed to resettle into his own family in suburban San
José. But there is violence hidden behind the sunny façade of
what he calls AMERICA™. One Christmas Eve, when Nguyen is nine,
while watching cartoons at home, he learns that his parents have
been shot while working at their grocery store, the S iGòn
M?i, a place where he sometimes helps price tins of fruit with a
sticker gun. Years later, as a teenager, the blood-stirring drama
of the films of the Vietnam War such as Apocalypse Now throw Nguyen
into an existential crisis: how can he be both American and
Vietnamese, both the killer and the person being killed? When he
learns about an adopted sister who has stayed back in Vietnam, and
ultimately visits her, he grows to understand just how much his
parents have left behind. And as his parents age, he worries
increasingly about their comfort and care, and realizes that some
of their older wounds are reopening. Resonant in its emotions and
clear in its thinking about cultural power, A Man of Two Faces
explores the necessity of both forgetting and of memory, the
promises America so readily makes and breaks, and the exceptional
life story of one of the most original and important writers
working today.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and
Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese
army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain,
drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the
last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots
start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their
number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the
group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong. The Sympathizer is the story
of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a
poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America,
but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A
gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and
a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two
worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature,
film, and the wars we fight today.
""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a
crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in
America."" –Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so
many different facets of the immigrant experience that readers will
find much to ponder... [and] experience how creative writing
enriches our understanding of each other and our lives."
–Booklist Introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet
Thanh Nguyen A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays,
poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers—including
award-winning writers, artists, and activists—that illuminate
what it is like living undocumented today. In the overheated debate
about immigration, we often lose sight of the humanity at the heart
of this complex issue. The immigrants and refugees living
precariously in the United States are mothers and fathers,
children, neighbors, and friends. Individuals propelled by hope and
fear, they gamble their lives on the promise of America, yet their
voices are rarely heard. This anthology of essays, poetry, and art
seeks to shift the immigration debate—now shaped by rancorous
stereotypes and xenophobia—towards one rooted in humanity and
justice. Through their storytelling and art, the contributors to
this thought-provoking book remind us that they are human still.
Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced
portraits of their existence before and after migration, the
factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland
and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective
hunger for a future not defined by borders. Created entirely by
undocumented or formerly undocumented migrants, Somewhere We Are
Human is a journey of memory and yearning from people newly arrived
to America, those who have been here for decades, and those who
have ultimately chosen to leave or were deported. Touching on
themes of race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, politics,
and parenthood, Somewhere We Are Human reveals how joy, hope,
mourning, and perseverance can take root in the toughest soil and
bloom in the harshest conditions.
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016
Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie
Medal for Excellence in Fiction "[A] remarkable debut novel."
--Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) Winner
of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize, a startling debut novel from a powerful
new voice featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent
fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double
agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The winner of the 2016
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The
Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace
and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to
Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic
of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a
"man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who
arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while
building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles
is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam.
The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and
America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love
and friendship.
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning
authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful,
beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings
together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an
original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19,
1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen
Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded
the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation,
the ACLU remains the nation's premier defender of the rights and
freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the
ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an
anthology of essays "full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience,
hope, and triumph" (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark
cases in the organization's one-hundred-year history. Fight of the
Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have
shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU
has been involved in-Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade,
Miranda v. Arizona-need little introduction. Others you may never
even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we
live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid
life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the
history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the
questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to
Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the
now-iconic Miranda rights-which the police would later read to the
man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of
Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend
of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to
the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well
be on different planets. True to the ACLU's spirit of principled
dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU's
stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with
essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann
Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and
many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the
past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we
can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are
donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are
forgoing payment.
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On Contested Terrain is published on the occasion of the first
comprehensive exhibition of An-My Le's work, organized by the
Carnegie Museum of Art. Throughout her career, Le has photographed
sites of former battlefields, spaces reserved for training for or
reenacting war, and the noncombatant roles of active service
members. She is part of a lineage of photographers who have adapted
the conventions of landscape photography to address the human
traces of history and conflict, but is one of the few who have
experienced the sights and sounds associated with growing up in a
warzone. The publication includes selections from Viet Nam
(1994-98), a series made on Le's return, twenty years after her
family was evacuated by the US military and 29 Palms (2003-4), made
on the eponymous military base built as a training ground during
the Iraq War. It will also include many new and
never-before-published images. Texts by curators Dan Leers and Lisa
Sutcliffe and an interview between Le and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Viet Thanh Nguyen, address how Le's work complicates the
landscapes of conflict that have long informed American identity.
From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from
a powerful voice in American letters, praised as “beautiful and
heartrending” (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker), “terrific”
(Chicago Tribune), and “an important and incisive book”
(Washington Post). Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim,
The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by
Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful stories, written
over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America,
Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading
lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of
birth. With the same incisiveness as in The Sympathizer, in The
Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to the hopes and
expectations of people making life-changing decisions to leave one
country for another, and the rifts in identity, loyalties, romantic
relationships, and family that accompany relocation. From a young
Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes
to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband
is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former
lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister
comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything
she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the
dreams and hardships of migration. The second work of fiction by a
major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully
written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those
who leave one country for another, and the relationships and
desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the
second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration
of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call
the American War-a conflict that lives on in the collective memory
of both nations. From a kaleidoscope of cultural forms-novels,
memoirs, cemeteries, monuments, films, photography, museum
exhibits, video games, souvenirs, and more-Nothing Ever Dies brings
a comprehensive vision of the war into sharp focus. At stake are
ethical questions about how the war should be remembered by
participants that include not only Americans and Vietnamese but
also Laotians, Cambodians, South Koreans, and Southeast Asian
Americans. Too often, memorials valorize the experience of one's
own people above all else, honoring their sacrifices while
demonizing the "enemy"-or, most often, ignoring combatants and
civilians on the other side altogether. Visiting sites across the
United States, Southeast Asia, and Korea, Viet Thanh Nguyen
provides penetrating interpretations of the way memories of the war
help to enable future wars or struggle to prevent them. Drawing
from this war, Nguyen offers a lesson for all wars by calling on us
to recognize not only our shared humanity but our ever-present
inhumanity. This is the only path to reconciliation with our foes,
and with ourselves. Without reconciliation, war's truth will be
impossible to remember, and war's trauma impossible to forget.
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a
bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great
Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an
imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future
unsullied by her family's history of untimely death. First issued
in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold
storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his
stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in
the world, disconnected from both American society and their own
families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of
love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal-informed by their
heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one
essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or
simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes
Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short
story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory,"
in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took
away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh
Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping
contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by
literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of
Louie's career.
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'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone'
New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A
masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief
History of Seven Killings 'Fierce and unrelentingly good. Hilarious
and subversive' Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of
There There ------------------------------------ It's the early
1980s and the Sympathizer arrives in Paris. As a refugee, he and
his blood brother Bon try to escape their turbulent pasts by
turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug
dealing. No longer in physical danger, the Sympathizer is both
charmed and disturbed by Paris. Falling in with left-wing
intellectuals and politicians at dinner parties held by his French
Vietnamese "aunt", he finds customers for his merchandise as well
as stimulation for his mind. But this new life he's living has
unforeseen dangers of oppression, addiction and the seemingly
unresolvable paradox of reuniting his two closest friends, men
whose world views stand them poles apart. The highly suspenseful
sequel to The Sympathizer, both literary thriller and brilliant
novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of
commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's
position in the firmament of American letters.
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, National
Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review "The Year in
Reading" Selection All wars are fought twice, the first time on the
battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching
exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and
Vietnamese call the American War-a conflict that lives on in the
collective memory of both nations. "[A] gorgeous, multifaceted
examination of the war Americans call the Vietnam War-and which
Vietnamese call the American War...As a writer, [Nguyen] brings
every conceivable gift-wisdom, wit, compassion, curiosity-to the
impossible yet crucial work of arriving at what he calls 'a just
memory' of this war." -Kate Tuttle, Los Angeles Times "In Nothing
Ever Dies, his unusually thoughtful consideration of war,
self-deception and forgiveness, Viet Thanh Nguyen penetrates deeply
into memories of the Vietnamese war...[An] important book, which
hits hard at self-serving myths." -Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review
"Ultimately, Nguyen's lucid, arresting, and richly sourced inquiry,
in the mode of Susan Sontag and W. G. Sebald, is a call for true
and just stories of war and its perpetual legacy." -Donna Seaman,
Booklist (starred review)
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In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between
two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a
young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he
comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose
husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a
former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older
half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished
everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament
to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of
fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written
and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave
one country for another, and the relationships and desires for
self-fulfillment that define our lives.
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The Committed (Hardcover)
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'Call The Committed many things. A white hot literary thriller
disguised as a searing novel of ideas. An unflinching look at
redemption and damnation. An unblinking examination of the dangers
of belief, and the need to believe. A sequel that goes toe to toe
with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James,
Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly
regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the
Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his
blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their
futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest
forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still
inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former
best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture,
the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls
in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who
frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he
finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his
merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not
foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of
addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can
reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in
absolute opposition. Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of
ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and
betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the
firmament of American letters. 'Here it is, with perfect timing, a
novel that anyone who is part of a colonising or colonised nation -
and that includes, of course, America - should read . . . Nguyen is
a craftsman . . . And then there's the sharp humour . . . Like The
Sympathizer, it amounts to much more than the sum of its parts.
These two novels constitute a powerful challenge to an enduring
narrative of colonialism and neo-colonialism. One waits to see what
Nguyen, and the man of two faces, will do next' the Guardian 'If
The Sympathizer was ostensibly a spy novel, then The Committed is a
gangland thriller . . . Two contemporary classics for your bedside
table' The Telegraph, five star review
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a
bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great
Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an
imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future
unsullied by her family's history of untimely death. First issued
in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold
storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his
stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in
the world, disconnected from both American society and their own
families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of
love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal-informed by their
heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one
essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or
simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes
Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short
story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory,"
in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took
away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh
Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping
contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by
literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of
Louie's career.
The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration,
fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established
civilisations and cultures of travel well before European explorers
arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The
twentieth century, with its various wars fought in and over the
Pacific, is only the most recent era to witness military strife and
economic competition. While "Asia Pacific" and "Pacific Rim" were
late twentieth-century terms that dealt with the importance of the
Pacific to the economic, political, and cultural arrangements that
span Asia and the Americas, a new term has arisen-the transpacific.
In the twenty-first century, U.S. efforts to dominate the ocean are
symbolized not only in the "Pacific pivot" of American policy but
also the development of a Transpacific Partnership. This
partnership brings together a dozen countries-not including
China-in a trade pact whose aim is to cement U.S. influence. That
pact signals how the transpacific, up to now an academic term, has
reached mass consciousness. Recognising the increasing importance
of the transpacific as a word and concept, this anthology proposes
a framework for transpacific studies that examines the flows of
culture, capital, ideas, and labour across the Pacific. These flows
involve Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. The
introduction to the anthology by its editors, Janet Hoskins and
Viet Thanh Nguyen, consider the advantages and limitations of
models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American
studies for dealing with these flows. The editors argue that
transpacific studies can draw from all three in order to provide a
critical model for considering the geopolitical struggle over the
Pacific, with its attendant possibilities for inequality and
exploitation. Transpacific studies also sheds light on the cultural
and political movements, artistic works, and ideas that have arisen
to contest state, corporate, and military ambitions. In sum, the
transpacific as a concept illuminates how flows across the Pacific
can be harnessed for purposes of both domination and resistance.
The anthology's contributors include geographers (Brenda S. A.
Yeoh, Weiqiang Lin), sociologists (Yen Le Espiritu, Hung Cam Thai),
literary critics (John Carlos Rowe, J. Francisco Benitez, Yunte
Huang, Viet Thanh Nguyen), and anthropologists (Xiang Biao, Heonik
Kwon, Nancy Lutkehaus, Janet Hoskins), as well as a historian
(Laurie J. Sears), and a film scholar (Akira Lippit). Together
these contributors demonstrate how a transpacific model can be
deployed across multiple disciplines and from varied locations,
with scholars working from the United States, Singapore, Japan and
England. Topics include the Cold War, the Chinese state, U.S.
imperialism, diasporic and refugee cultures and economies, national
cinemas, transpacific art, and the view of the transpacific from
Asia. These varied topics are a result of the anthology's purpose
in bringing scholars into conversation and illuminating how
location influences the perception of the transpacific. But
regardless of the individual view, what the essays gathered here
collectively demonstrate is the energy, excitement, and insight
that can be generated from within a transpacific framework.
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The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and prepare for their futures by turning their hands to capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. No longer in physical danger, but still inwardly tortured by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, and struggling to assimilate into a dominant culture, the Sympathizer is both charmed and disturbed by Paris. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals and politicians who frequent dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese "aunt," he finds not just stimulation for his mind but also customers for his merchandise - but the new life he is making has dangers he has not foreseen, from the oppression of the state, to the self-torture of addiction, to the seemingly unresolvable paradox of how he can reunite his two closest friends, men whose worldviews put them in absolute opposition.
Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen's position in the firmament of American letters.
Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a cultural arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.
Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity. Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and he makes his case through the example of literature, which still remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans. Significantly, in examining Asian American literature, what we find is that the literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.
Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era
formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an
established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement,
and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously
serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American
Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its
student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations
inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched,
politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline.
Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates
the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and-more
provocatively, has not-responded to various contemporary crises,
particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist,
homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding
imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices
in higher education.
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