Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

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.