California Dreaming : : Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary / / ed. by Christine Bacareza Balance, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Russell Leong, David K. Yoo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Balance, Christine Bacareza,; Buenavista, Tracy Lachica,; Burns, Lucy M.S.P.,; Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo,; Chan, Leilani,; Cheng, Wendy,; Duong, Lan,; D’Lo,,; Fellezs, Kevin,; Gomolvilas, Prince,; Hernandez-Lopez, Raymundo M.,; Huang, Philip,; Karimi, Robert Farid,; Kwan, SanSan,; Lu, Joyce,; Lytle, Tiffany,; Lê, Viêt,; Lê, Việt,; Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano,; McMullin, Dan Taulapapa,; Min, Yong Soon,; Osterloh, Gina,; Padua, Larry,; Padua, Laurence Angeleo,; Perez, Jason Magabo,; Saopeng, Ova,; Shah, Nayan,; Srijaerajah, Dilan D'Lo,; Srinivasan, Priya,; Vang, Mai Der,; Wong, Kristina,; Yamashita, Karen Tei,
• HerausgeberIn: Balance, Christine Bacareza,; Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo,; Leong, Russell,; Yoo, David K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.) :; 45 b&w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. California Dreaming: An Introduction -- 2. Sensual Labor of Claiming Place -- 3. Bohulano Family Binangkal -- 4. 100 Tiki Notes -- 5. Cambodian Classical Dance: Unsettlement, Authenticity, Affect, and Exclusion -- 6. Lao Fighters/Refugee Nation -- 7. 21 Reasons Why This Movie Sucks -- 8. From the Island of Berkeley: Hawaiian Belonging in California -- 9. Somewhere Tropical -- 10. Dreamers: A Dialogue on Education Rights and the Movement for Undocumented Migrants -- 11. Claiming Malibu: Indian Diasporic Dancing Bodies Aligning Geographies across Time and Space -- 12. Oh, Angelita Garcia! -- 13. Moving Tradition: Alleluia Panis and Kularts -- 14. Tips for Bus Riding in Los Angeles (excerpted from Going Green the Wong Way) -- 15. Reels -- 16. Vacuuming Dreams -- 17. L.A. Dreaming in Taipei -- 18. Poems -- 19. “Parents’ Fairytale”: Excerpt from Self (The Remix) -- 20. Traveling Subjects and the Subject of Travel in Vietnamese Diasporic Films -- 21. Photographs from Live and Online Performances -- 22. Abstraction 2: Television Sitcom from DentalOptics -- 23. Generations Within: Los Angeles 1992 and South Korean 8008 -- 24. Golden States of Mind: Cambodian and Vietnamese Artistic Organizing in Southern California and Southeast Asia -- 25. Excerpts from D’FunQT -- 26. Of Railroads, Camps, and Strip Malls: Symbolic Landscapes of the San Gabriel Valley -- 27. Where You’ve Been: An Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Contributors