New Books in Asian American Studies

Jason Bayani
Locus

Omnidawn Publishing, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Literature New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books Network October 15, 2019 Andrea Blythe

“Poetry gave me back a way to find my culture, my history,” says Jason Bayani while discussion his new book Locus (Omnidawn Publishing 2019), which blends memoir and poetry into a stunning exploration of fragmented identities and the Pilipinx-American experience. Drawing inspiration from hip-hop and delving into the knotted complexity... Read More

Dean Itsuji Saranillio, “Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood” (Duke UP, 2018)

Dean Itsuji Saranillio
Unsustainable Empire
Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in History New Books in Native American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 19, 2019 Chris Patterson

In Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2018), Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Hawai‘i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil rights victory against racist claims that Hawai‘i was undeserving of statehood because it... Read More

Meredith Oda, “The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco” (U Chicago Press, 2019)

Meredith Oda
The Gateway to the Pacific
Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 14, 2019 Ian Shin

In The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Meredith Oda shows how city leaders and local residents in San Francisco fashioned a postwar municipal identity through their promotion of what Oda calls transpacific urbanism. Though the Japanese American presence... Read More

Aimee Bahng, “Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times” (Duke UP, 2018)

Aimee Bahng
Migrant Futures
Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network August 2, 2019 Chris Patterson

In Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times (Duke UP, 2018), Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of... Read More

Jinah Kim, “Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas” (Duke UP, 2019)

Jinah Kim
Postcolonial Grief
The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network July 11, 2019 Laura Ha Reizman

In Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2019), Jinah Kim explores questions of loss, memory, and redress in post WWII Asian diasporic decolonial politics. Through a close analysis of seminal cultural works that range from theory, short stories, film noir, documentaries, plays,... Read More

Dorinne Kondo, “Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity” (Duke UP, 2018)

Dorinne Kondo
Worldmaking
Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books Network June 24, 2019 Sitara Thobani

In Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (Duke University Press 2018), Dorinne Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race. Building on over 20... Read More

Anne A. Cheng, “Ornamentalism” (Oxford UP, 2019)

Anne A. Cheng
Ornamentalism

Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Asian American Studies New Books in Communications New Books in Critical Theory New Books in Language New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 21, 2019 Lee Pierce

On this episode, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they)–Asst. Prof. of Rhetoric and Communication at the State University of New York at Geneseo–Dr. Anne Cheng (she/hers)–Professor of English and Director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University–to discuss an almost revolutionary work of theory and critique: Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press,... Read More