Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816655922)

Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation. Jodi Kim demonstrates the degree to which Asian American literature and film critique the record of U.S. imperial violence in Asia and provides a glimpse into the imperial and gendered racial logic of the Cold War. She unfolds this particularly entangled and enduring episode in the history of U.S. global hegemony--one that, contrary to leading interpretations of the Cold War as a simple bipolar rivalry, was significantly triangulated in Asia. The Asian American works analyzed here constitute a crucial body of what Kim reveals as transnational "Cold War compositions," which are at once a geopolitical structuring, an ideological writing, and a cultural imagining. Arguing that these works reframe the U.S. Cold War as a project of gendered racial formation and imperialism as well as a production of knowledge, Ends of Empire offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the transnational dimensions of Asian America and its critical relationship to Cold War history.

Author: Jodi Kim
ISBN-10: 0816655928
ISBN-13: 9780816655922
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2010
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 64