Overview
- Provides insight into a rich yet understudied population in American art history
- Explores the nuance of how Asian American identities have changed throughout the twentieth century to the present
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture (CSGSC)
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This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy Hom, Betty Kano, Flo Oy Wong, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Theresa H.K. Cha, and Hung Liu are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of their time, and their art is examined in light of the question of what it means to be an Asian American artist. Laura Fantone’s exploration of this dynamic, understudied artistic community begets a sensitive and timely reflection on the state of Asian American women in the USA and in Californian cultural institutions.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Laura Fantone is Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her commitment to interdisciplinarity has led her to write on video games, reproductive technologies, labor and precarity, and ethnic minorities and refugees in Europe; to produce two documentaries distributed in Italy and in the USA; and to curate two art shows.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms
Book Subtitle: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California
Authors: Laura Fantone
Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50670-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50669-6Published: 23 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70102-5Published: 14 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50670-2Published: 22 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-7491
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Arts, Asian Culture, Sociology of Culture, American Culture, Cultural Anthropology