Beschreibung:
"A model of border-crossing scholarship. . . . Erudite in its range of scholarship and materials, using theory with critical finesse, and moving with ease across disciplinary and area boundaries, . . . it should be of relevance to all scholars engaged in Asian American studies and cultural studies, as well as scholars in American, Asian, and Pacific studies."--Arif Dirlik, Duke University "Passionate, wide-ranging, and serious, . . . an assault on our understanding of America's modernity, . . . highly suggestive for redefining the analytical terrain of American studies."--Aihwa Ong, author of Flexible Citizenship
Introduction; Part I. Modernity, Asia, America: 1. Pacific America: projection, introjection, and the beginnings of modern Asian America; 2. Rescripting the imaginary; Part II. Bodies and Souls: 3. Written on the face: race, nation, migrancy, and sex; 4. Transacting culture: bodies at the seam of the social; Part III. Modeling the Nation: 5. Citizens and subnations; 6. Disintegrations and reconsolidations; Part IV. Placing Asian America: 7. War, the homeland, and the traces of memory; 8. Demarcations and fissures: reconstructing space; Part V. Mind Readings: 9. Double trouble: the pathology of ethnicity meets white schizophrenia; 10. Asia Pacific: a transnational imaginary; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index.