{"product_id":"asian-american-players-audrey-wu-clark-9780814258811","title":"Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War","description":"The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In \u003ci\u003eAsian American Players\u003c\/i\u003e, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry, even as that masculinity socially and politically alienates him. She examines gendered and racialized US militarism through works written during major postmodern American wars, investigating how books by John Okada, David Henry Hwang, Chang-rae Lee, Frances Khirallah Noble, and Viet Thanh Nguyen (re)fashion Asian American masculinity in ways that ultimately mimic masculinist American foreign policy and military strategies during corresponding wars. She unearths a dual picture of Asian American players: as traces of the anxiety of America's quest for empowerment and continued military and industrial dominance in the international arena and as those tarred as inferior and disloyal outsiders within this mirrored global dominance. She thus finds new inroads into understanding US imperialism and militarism and identifies ways that key literary figures have written against insidious tropes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Audrey Wu Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814258816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814258811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Audrey Wu Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094464745727,"sku":"9780814258811","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82bfdc8b-00ed-426f-a902-8e77199c95bf.jpg?v=1724844735","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/asian-american-players-audrey-wu-clark-9780814258811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}