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.

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 C...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies ; 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.) :; 45 b&w illustrations
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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