Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production

by Crystal S. Anderson

Overview

From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617037566
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	05/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Crystal S. Anderson, Elon, North Carolina, is an associate professor of English at Elon University. Her work has been published in African American Review, MELUS, Extrapolation, and Ethnic Studies Review.

Editorial Reviews

"The 1955 Bandung conference dream of Pan-African and Pan-Asian unity has a sequel, writes Crystal S. Anderson, in the rise of post-1970s Afro-Asian cultural production. She ably shows us how Bruce Lee, Frank Chin and Ishmael Reed novels, Hollywood remakes and the political panavision of kung-fu cinema all embody the aspirations and contradictions entailed in forging Black-Asian identification and solidarity. This polycultural multimedia study puts political pop into popular culture."

—Bill V. Mullen, professor of English and American studies at Purdue University

"In this tightly argued, sophisticated work, Crystal Anderson takes us Beyond 'The Chinese Connection' to a capacious world of imperialism, transnational capital, and global culture. Close readings of the iconic, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist Bruce Lee and Afro-Asian films, novels, and anime of the post-1990 period reveal the processes of 'cultural emulsion' and 'cultural translation' that produce subject positions, male friendships, and group conflicts and solidarities. Those crossings stir the imagination and induce a liberating consciousness."

—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones

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