Representations : Doing Asian American Rhetoric / / edited by LuMing Mao and Morris Young.

Asian American rhetorics, produced through cultural contact between Asian traditions and US English, also comprise a dynamic influence on the cultural conditions and practices within which they move. Though always interesting to linguists and ""contact language"" scholars, in an...

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Place / Publishing House:Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2008.
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (359 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Performing Asian American rhetoric into the American imaginary
  • Performing Asian American rhetoric in context. Transnational Asian American rhetoric as a diasporic practice / Rory Ong
  • Reexamining the between-worlds Trope in cross-cultural composition studies / Tomo Hattori and Stuart Ching
  • Asian American rhetorical memory and a "Memory that is only sometimes our own" / Haivan V. Hoang
  • Listening for legacies; or How I began to hear Dorothy Laigo Cordova, the Pinay behind the podium known as FANHS / Terese Guinsatao Monberg
  • Learning authenticity: pedagogies of Hindu nationalism in North America / Subhasree Chakravarty
  • Relocating authority: coauthor(iz)ing a Japanese American ethos of resistance under mass incarceration / Mira Chieko Shimabukuro
  • Rhetoric of the Asian American self: influences of region and social class on autobiographical writing / Robyn Tasaka
  • "Translating" and "transforming" Asian American identities. Artful bigotry and kitsch": a study of stereotype, mimicry, and satire in Asian American t-shirt rhetoric / Vincent N. Pham and Kent A. Ono
  • Beyond "Asian American" and back: coalitional rhetoric in print and new media / Jolivette Mecenas
  • On the road with P.T. Barnum's traveling Chinese museum: rhetorics of public reception and self-resistance in the emergence of literature by Chinese American women / Mary Louise Buley-Meissner
  • Rereading Sui Sin Far: a rhetoric of defiance / Bo Wang
  • Margaret Cho, Jake Shimabukuro, and rhetorics in a minor key / Jeffrey Carroll
  • "Maybe I could play a hooker in something!" Asian American identity, gender, and comedy in the rhetoric of Margaret Cho / Michaela D.E. Meyer
  • Learning Asian American affect / K. Hyoejin Yoon
  • Afterword: Toward a theory of Asian American rhetoric: what is to be done?