Representations : Doing Asian American Rhetoric /

Representations : Doing Asian American Rhetoric / edited by LuMing Mao and Morris Young. - 1 online resource (357 pages): ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Performing Asian American rhetoric into the American imaginary -- Performing Asian American rhetoric in context. Transnational Asian American rhetoric as a diasporic practice / Reexamining the between-worlds Trope in cross-cultural composition studies / Asian American rhetorical memory and a "Memory that is only sometimes our own" / Listening for legacies; or How I began to hear Dorothy Laigo Cordova, the Pinay behind the podium known as FANHS / Learning authenticity: pedagogies of Hindu nationalism in North America / Relocating authority: coauthor(iz)ing a Japanese American ethos of resistance under mass incarceration / Rhetoric of the Asian American self: influences of region and social class on autobiographical writing / "Translating" and "transforming" Asian American identities. Artful bigotry and kitsch": a study of stereotype, mimicry, and satire in Asian American t-shirt rhetoric / Beyond "Asian American" and back: coalitional rhetoric in print and new media / 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 / Rereading Sui Sin Far: a rhetoric of defiance / Margaret Cho, Jake Shimabukuro, and rhetorics in a minor key / "Maybe I could play a hooker in something!" Asian American identity, gender, and comedy in the rhetoric of Margaret Cho / Learning Asian American affect / Toward a theory of Asian American rhetoric: what is to be done? Rory Ong -- Tomo Hattori and Stuart Ching -- Haivan V. Hoang -- Terese Guinsatao Monberg -- Subhasree Chakravarty -- Mira Chieko Shimabukuro -- Robyn Tasaka -- Vincent N. Pham and Kent A. Ono -- Jolivette Mecenas -- Mary Louise Buley-Meissner -- Bo Wang -- Jeffrey Carroll -- Michaela D.E. Meyer -- K. Hyoejin Yoon -- Introduction: Afterword:

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Intercultural communication--United States.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.
Asian Americans--Education--Language arts.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.


Electronic books.

PE1405.U6 / R47 2008

808/.0428