Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

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Asian Girlhood in the Shadows of US Empire

Tran, Sharon N.

University of Minnesota Press

04/2026

256

Mole

Inglês

9781517919863

15 a 20 dias

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Contents

Introduction: The Critical Possibilities of Asian Girlhood

1. The Child-Facets of Japanese American Incarceration: Visions and Literary Revisions of the School-Girl

2. Reclaiming the Korean War Minor: On Kumiho Hunger and Imagining Camptown Girlhood Otherwise

3. Justice for the Vietnam War (Non)Orphan: Narrating Operation Babylift and the Strangeness of the Child Before the Law

4. Theorizing the "Napalm Girl": On the Possibilities of Objecthood

Epilogue. The Girl Child in the Age of Neoliberal Empire: Toward a Politics and Ethics of Lying Down

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index
U.S. empire; imperialism; Asian American literature and culture; Orientalism; racial infantilization; critical race studies; girlhood studies; feminist theory; childhood studies; Cold War Studies; Japan; Korean War; WWII; Vietnam War; Japanese American incarceration; Kiku Hughes; Nora Okja Keller; Aimee Phan; le th? di?m thy; Fox Girl; Operation Babylift; We Should Never Meet; Napalm Girl; refugee; Bhanu Kapil; militarism; Daniel Kim; Jodi Kim; Moon-Ho Jung; Anne Cheng; Josephine Park; Christine Hong; internment camps