Race and Resistance

Literature and Politics in Asian America

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen ISBN: 9780190287238
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: March 28, 2002
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
ISBN: 9780190287238
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: March 28, 2002
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

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In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that literature embodies the complexities, conflicts, and potential future options of Asian American culture.

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