Name: Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States
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Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States

Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Edited By: Jonathan H. X. Lee

£52.99

This collection explores Southeast Asian American subjectivities through the interplay of memory and vision. Authors examine diverse homes, creativities, and queer sexualities to provide new visions that link Southeast Asia to America in creative and purposeful ways.

Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides various exploratory interpretations on Southeast Asian American subjectivities, communities, histories, creativities, and cultural expressions, as they are revealed, informed, or infused with visions, dreams, and or memories of self in relation to others, places, time, and events – historically significant or quotidian. The interaction and interplay of visions, memories, and subjectivities is the focus of examination and interpretation, either directly or tangentially. Authors explore varieties of homes, religiosities, creativities, cultural forms and productions, and queer sexualities, utilizing critical ethnic and Asian American studies discourses coupled with other interdisciplinary approaches to provide new and alternative visions on Cambodian, Hmong, Filipino, Indonesian, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese American subjects and their communities that links Southeast Asia to America in vexing, creative, and purposeful ways.

Jonathan H. X. Lee is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. His most recent books are History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots; The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility (edited with Yuk Wah Chan and David Haines); and Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life (edited with Kathleen Nadeau).

Hardback

ISBN: 1-4438-6364-5
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-6364-3
Date of Publication: 2014-10-09

Ebook

ISBN: 1-4438-6979-1
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-6979-9
Date of Publication: 2014-10-09

Category: Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology

Pages: 370

Subject Codes:

BIC: JFSL, JFC, JFFN
THEMA: JBSL(5PBC), JBCC, JBFH

Pages: 370

“Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States is a formidable collection that assembles a remarkable range of narratives and brings together impressive contributions from emerging and established scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Unflinching in its critiques and creative in its revelations, these essays will transform perceptions of belonging, homelands, and representations. Through ethnographies, testimonies, reflections, and interpretations, the contributors make a cohesive and persuasive argument for us to reimagine how we have conceptualized transnational Southeast Asian American Studies.”
- —Linda Trinh Võ, Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine and author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community “Organized around interdisciplinary methods and approaches, the essays in this excellent collection trenchantly map out the economic, political and cultural trajectories of Filipino, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Cambodian and other Southeast Asian communities in the United States. From the divergent institutional and quotidian expressions of home, to ritual practices and religious meanings, and to the various cultural stages for the performance of and engagements with such varied issues as health, student achievement and queer sexualities, this collection paints a capacious scholarly tableau of Southeast Asian Americans, a group that has long been under-recognized and misrepresented in popular and official discourses.”

Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States

Hardback

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