Asian American players : masculinity, literature, and the anxieties of war / Audrey Wu Clark.
| Author/creator | Clark, Audrey Wu, 1980- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023] |
| Description | x, 199 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Asian American players -- Playing the Korean War: domestic containment and the bluff of melancholic Asian American masculinity -- Playing the Vietnam War: remasculinization and the rhetoric of polarity -- Playing the odds of the virtual Gulf War: world police and family man -- Playing the endless war: the simulacra of illegitimacy after 9/11 -- Conclusion: The anxieties of postmodern wars. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780814283011 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023007208 |
| ISBN | 9780814215449 |
| ISBN | 0814215440 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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