Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives
ISBN-13:
9780816665082
ISBN-10:
0816665087
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Eleanor Ty
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format:
Paperback
216 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780816665082
ISBN-10:
0816665087
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Eleanor Ty
Publication date:
2010
Publisher:
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format:
Paperback
216 pages
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Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (ISBN-13: 9780816665082 and ISBN-10: 0816665087), written by authors
Eleanor Ty, was published by Univ Of Minnesota Press in 2010.
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Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality—the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been—supposedly—surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla, who use figures of disability to accentuate the effects of marginality. Investigating works based on fantasy, Ty highlights the ways feminist writers Larissa Lai, Chitra Divakaruni, Hiromi Goto, and Ruth Ozeki employ myth, science fiction, and magic realism to provide alternatives to global capitalism. She notes that others, such as filmmaker Deepa Mehta and performers/dramatists Nadine Villasin and Nina Aquino, play with the multiple identities afforded to them by transcultural connections. Ultimately, Ty sees in these diverse narratives unfastened mobile subjects, heroes, and travelers who use everyday tactics to challenge inequitable circumstances in their lives brought about by globalization.
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