Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

by Laura Fantone
Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

by Laura Fantone

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349701025
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 12/22/2017
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.55(d)

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Visuality, Gender, and Asian America
2. Asian American Art for the People
3. Traces and Visions of In-Betweens
4. AAWAA: Visibility, Pan-Asian Identity, and the Limits of Community
5. Red and Gold Washing
6. Opacities: Local Venues, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries
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