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Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms

Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Laura Fantone

    1. Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

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  • Provides insight into a rich yet understudied population in American art history
  • Explores the nuance of how Asian American identities have changed throughout the twentieth century to the present

Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture (CSGSC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Visuality, Gender and Asian America

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 1-23

  3. Asian American Art for the People

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 25-61

  4. Traces and Visions of In-Betweenness

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 63-92

  5. AAWAA: Visibility, Pan-Asian Identity and the Limits of Community

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 93-138

  6. Red and Gold Washing

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 139-180

  7. Opacities: Local Venues, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 181-209

  8. Conclusions

    • Laura Fantone
    Pages 211-219

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 221-247
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Gender and Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Laura Fantone

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.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms

  • Book Subtitle: Asian American Contemporary Artists in California

  • Authors: Laura Fantone

  • Series Title: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50670-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50669-6Published: 23 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70102-5Published: 14 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50670-2Published: 22 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7491

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7505

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 247

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Arts, Asian Culture, Sociology of Culture, American Culture, Cultural Anthropology

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