Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4

Description

This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy - desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts - that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contexts.

Betsy Huang is Associate Provost and Dean of the College, the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein '64 Distinguished Professor, and Associate Professor of English at Clark University. She was Clark's inaugural Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion from 2013 to 2016, and served as Director of the Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies from 2013 to 2016. She teaches and researches in the overlapping spheres of Ethnic American and Asian American Literature, Science Fiction, Genre Theory, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She has published three books: a monograph, Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction (2010), and two co-edited two essay collections: Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (2015) and Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts (2018). Victor Roman Mendoza is the author of Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 (2015). Mendoza teaches in Women's Studies and English and directs the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative at the University of Michigan.