California Dreaming Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary |
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| Editor:
| Balance, Christine Bacareza
Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo |
| Contribution by:
| Balance, Christine Bacareza
Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo
Buenavista, Tracy Lachica
Chan, Leilani
Cheng, Wendy
Srijaerajah, Dilan D'Lo
Duong, Lan
Fellezs, Kevin
Gomolvilas, Prince
Hernandez-Lopez, Raymundo M.
Huang, Philip
Karimi, Robert Farid
Kwan, SanSan
Lê, Việt
Lu, Joyce
Lytle, Tiffany
Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano
McMullin, Dan Taulapapa
Min, Yong Soon
Osterloh, Gina
Padua, Laurence Angeleo
Perez, Jason Magabo
Saopeng, Ova
Shah, Nayan
Srinivasan, Priya
Vang, Mai Der
Wong, Kristina
Yamashita, Karen Tei |
| Series edited by:
| Leong, Russell
Yoo, David K. |
| Series title: | Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8248-8976-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | University of Hawaii Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here, "California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia...
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California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of "Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here, "California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the "Golden State" as the embodiment of "frontier mentality" and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production.
The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California's landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds "sensing" and "imagining" place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.