Author: Monica Chiu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field, Don Lee’s Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. Together they reference more than a decade of Asian North America monitoring that includes internment, campaign financing, espionage, and post-9/11 surveillance. However, these works are less concerned with solving crimes than with creating literary responses to the subtle but persistent surveillance of raced subjects. In Scrutinized! Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels’ fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Scrutinized! is broadly about oversight and insight. The race policing of the past has been subsumed under post-racism—an oversight (in the popular nomenclature of race blindness) that is still, ironically, based on a persistent visual construction of race. Detective fiction’s focus on scrutiny presents itself as the most appropriate genre for revealing the failures of a so-called post-racialism in which we continue to deploy visually defined categories of race as social realities—a regulatory mechanism under which Asian North Americans live the paradox of being inscrutable. To be looked at and overlooked is the contradiction that drives the book’s thesis. Readers first revisit Oriental visions, or Asian stereotypes, and then encounter official documentation on major events, such as the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. The former visions, which endure, and the latter documents, diplomatically forgotten, shape how Asian subjects were and are scrutinized and to what effect. They determine which surveillance images remain emblazoned in a nation’s collective memory and which face political burial. The book goes on to provide a compelling analysis of mystery and detective fiction by Lee, Nina Revoyr, Choi, Suki Kim, Sakamoto, and Hamid, whose work exploits the genre’s techniques to highlight pervasive vigilance among Asian North American subjects.
Scrutinized!
Author: Monica Chiu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field, Don Lee’s Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. Together they reference more than a decade of Asian North America monitoring that includes internment, campaign financing, espionage, and post-9/11 surveillance. However, these works are less concerned with solving crimes than with creating literary responses to the subtle but persistent surveillance of raced subjects. In Scrutinized! Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels’ fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Scrutinized! is broadly about oversight and insight. The race policing of the past has been subsumed under post-racism—an oversight (in the popular nomenclature of race blindness) that is still, ironically, based on a persistent visual construction of race. Detective fiction’s focus on scrutiny presents itself as the most appropriate genre for revealing the failures of a so-called post-racialism in which we continue to deploy visually defined categories of race as social realities—a regulatory mechanism under which Asian North Americans live the paradox of being inscrutable. To be looked at and overlooked is the contradiction that drives the book’s thesis. Readers first revisit Oriental visions, or Asian stereotypes, and then encounter official documentation on major events, such as the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. The former visions, which endure, and the latter documents, diplomatically forgotten, shape how Asian subjects were and are scrutinized and to what effect. They determine which surveillance images remain emblazoned in a nation’s collective memory and which face political burial. The book goes on to provide a compelling analysis of mystery and detective fiction by Lee, Nina Revoyr, Choi, Suki Kim, Sakamoto, and Hamid, whose work exploits the genre’s techniques to highlight pervasive vigilance among Asian North American subjects.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824838432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field, Don Lee’s Country of Origin, Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest. These and a host of other Asian North American detection and mystery titles were published between 1995 and 2010. Together they reference more than a decade of Asian North America monitoring that includes internment, campaign financing, espionage, and post-9/11 surveillance. However, these works are less concerned with solving crimes than with creating literary responses to the subtle but persistent surveillance of raced subjects. In Scrutinized! Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels’ fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Scrutinized! is broadly about oversight and insight. The race policing of the past has been subsumed under post-racism—an oversight (in the popular nomenclature of race blindness) that is still, ironically, based on a persistent visual construction of race. Detective fiction’s focus on scrutiny presents itself as the most appropriate genre for revealing the failures of a so-called post-racialism in which we continue to deploy visually defined categories of race as social realities—a regulatory mechanism under which Asian North Americans live the paradox of being inscrutable. To be looked at and overlooked is the contradiction that drives the book’s thesis. Readers first revisit Oriental visions, or Asian stereotypes, and then encounter official documentation on major events, such as the Japanese American and Japanese Canadian internment. The former visions, which endure, and the latter documents, diplomatically forgotten, shape how Asian subjects were and are scrutinized and to what effect. They determine which surveillance images remain emblazoned in a nation’s collective memory and which face political burial. The book goes on to provide a compelling analysis of mystery and detective fiction by Lee, Nina Revoyr, Choi, Suki Kim, Sakamoto, and Hamid, whose work exploits the genre’s techniques to highlight pervasive vigilance among Asian North American subjects.
Financial Reform Scrutinized
Author: Samuel Bentham
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
An Alphabetical Copy of the Poll, (as Scrutinized by the Returning Officers.) Taken at the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the County of Stafford, at the Election of a Member, to Represent the Said Borough in Parliament; in the Room of the Honorable Admiral John Leveson Gower, Deceased; which Commenced on Wednesday the 5th. and Continued ... Until Saturday the 15th. of September, 1792. Candidates. William Egerton, ... Thomas Fletcher, ...
Author: Newcastle-under-Lyme (England)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Conduct of a Noble Lord [i.e. Lord George Sackville, Afterwards Viscount Sackville, at the Battle of Minden 1 Aug. 1759] Scrutinized. By a Volunteer who was Near His Person from the 28th of July, to the 2d of August, 1759
Author: John Douglas
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
H.R. 1327, the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2009
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Iran Sanctions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Economic sanctions, American
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economic sanctions, American
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Minnesota Statutes
Author: Minnesota
Publisher:
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Court rules
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
Book Description
General Acts, Resolutions, and Memorials Adopted by the ... Legislature of Florida Under the Constitution as Revised in 1968
Author: Florida
Publisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Treatise on English Grammar and Composition. Cont. Copious Exercises
Author: Henry Barnard (of San Francisco)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Mitácshará, Vyávahára Adhyáy
Author: Vijñāneśvara
Publisher:
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Category : Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
English translation of the Mitāk.sarā commentary on the Vyavahāra dhyāya of Yājñavalkyasmr̥ti, classical digest of Hindu religious law.
Publisher:
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Category : Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
English translation of the Mitāk.sarā commentary on the Vyavahāra dhyāya of Yājñavalkyasmr̥ti, classical digest of Hindu religious law.