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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020
- Asian American Literature in Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics
- Part II Intersections, Intimacies
- Part III Genres, Modalities
- Chapter 9 The Asiatic Modal Imagination
- Chapter 10 Revisualizing Race
- Chapter 11 Contemporary Asian American Women’s Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form
- Chapter 12 This Is Not a Page
- Part IV Movements, Speculations
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 10 - Revisualizing Race
Graphic Narratives and Asian American Literature
from Part III - Genres, Modalities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020
- Asian American Literature in Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics
- Part II Intersections, Intimacies
- Part III Genres, Modalities
- Chapter 9 The Asiatic Modal Imagination
- Chapter 10 Revisualizing Race
- Chapter 11 Contemporary Asian American Women’s Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form
- Chapter 12 This Is Not a Page
- Part IV Movements, Speculations
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Cultural identities are developed through new critical frameworks for Asian American aesthetics. The shifting demographic changes in Asian America as well as the growth of new literary forms such as graphic narratives shape our critical investments and produce alternative subject formations. Arguing for plurality and flexibility, this chapter looks at the productive ways that experimental forms of literature such as graphic narratives can resist the totalization and commodification of Asian American identity. Rejecting reductive stereotypical representations of Asian Americans and emphasizing the need for a reconceptualization of how we discuss race, graphic narratives challenge existing caricatures and stereotypes, problematize the narratives of race, and offer experimental forms of representation.
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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020 , pp. 200 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021