East Main Street

by Dave, Shilpa; Nishime, Leilani; Oren, Tasha G.

• ISBN13: 9780814719626
• ISBN10: 0814719627
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: New York Univ Pr

Summary

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ocirc;A veritable feast of the field's most scrumptious offerings,East Main Streetsatisfies with some of the best minds in Asian American studies at this table.ouml; --Gary Y. Okihiro, author ofCommon Ground: Reimagining Asian American History "Sure to spark the imagination of both seasoned fans of Asian American popular culture and the as yet uninitiated. From cyberspace and anim? toThe Simpsons andSecret Asian Man , this book intrigues and provokes with every chapter. The sheer number of savvy cultural critics assembled ensures that readers will find something of interest, no matter where one begins exploring the popular culture of Asian America." --Kent Ono, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignFrom henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ocirc;faux Asianouml; fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays inEast Main Streetbring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture through food to the contemporary clamor for transnational Chinese women's historical fiction.East Main Streethits the shelves in the midst of a boom in Asian American population and cultural production. This book is essential not only for understanding Asian American popular culture but also contemporary U.S. popular culture writ large.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xi
Robert G. Lee
Introduction	1	(12)
Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. Oren
PART I: Globalization and Local Identities
1 Trance-Formations: Orientalism and Cosmopolitanism in Youth Culture	13	(19)
Sunaina Maira
2 Making Transnational Vietnamese Music: Sounds of Home and Resistance	32	(23)
Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde
3 Planet Bollywood: Indian Cinema Abroad	55	(17)
Jigna Desai
4 Model Minorities Can Cook: Fusion Cuisine in Asian America	72	(23)
Anita Mannur
5 "PAPPY'S HOUSE": "Pop" Culture and the Revaluation of a Filipino American "Sixty-Cents" in Guam	95	(22)
Vicente M. Diaz
PART II: Cultural Legacy and Memories
6 "Within Each Crack/A Story": The Political Economy of Queering Filipino American Pasts	117	(20)
Victor Bascara
7 "A Woman Is Nothing": Valuing the Modern Chinese Woman's Epic Journey to the West	137	(17)
Christine So
8 Between Yellowphilia and Yellowphobia: Ethnic Stardom and the (Dis)Orientalized Romantic Couple in Daughter of Shanghai and King of Chinatown	154	(29)
Hye Seung Chung
9 Whose Paradise? Hawaii, Desire, and the Global-Local Tensions of Popular Culture	183	(21)
Morris Young
10 Miss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America	204	(18)
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain
11 How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods	222	(27)
Hiram Perez
PART III: Ethnicity and Identification
12 Bruce Lee in the Ghetto Connection: Kung Fu Theater and African Americans Reinventing Culture at the Margins	249	(13)
Amy Abugo Ongiri
13 "Alllooksame"? Mediating Asian American Visual Cultures of Race on the Web	262	(11)
Lisa Nakamura
14 Guilty Pleasures: Keanu Reeves, Superman, and Racial Outing	273	(19)
LeiLani Nishime
15 Cibo Matto's Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop	292	(21)
Jane C.H. Park
16 Apu's Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents	313	(24)
Shilpa Davé
17 Secret Asian Man: Angry Asians and the Politics of Cultural Visibility	337	(24)
Tasha G. Oren
About the Contributors	361	(4)
Index	365