Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives

Index

Abdulhabi, Rabab, xx abjection, 12–14, 37, 40, 60, 71, 98, 125; abject others, 13 African American, 13, 16, 34–35 aging, 90, 104–6 Allen, Woody, 78 Alsaybar, Bangele, 145n4 Al-Solaylee, Kamal, 64 Alsultany, Evelyn, xx America: American dream, 3–5, 19, 64–65, 109; American son, 12; culture, 16, 75, 104; democracy, 14; music, 135 Andersen, Hans Christian, 90 Ang, Ien, xxiv, xxx Angel Island, 144n10 Appadurai, Arjun, xxix, 91 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 136–37 Aquino, Nina, xxxv, 63–76 Asian American, xv, xvii, xix, xxi, 46, 109, 125, 127, 141–42; authors, xiv–xv, 94; employment, 55; identification, xxx, 138; literature, xviii, xx, xxxii, 89, 129–30, 132; narratives, xxix; population, xxiii Asian British, 133, 141–42 Asian Canadian, xv, xvii, xix, xxi, 109, 141–42, 150n1; authors, xiv– xv, 136; demographics, xxiii; employment, 55; identification, xxx, 129–30, 138; literature, xviii, xxxii, 89; narratives, xxix, 77 Asian global, 130, 132–33, 140, 142 Asian North American, xvi, xvii, xx, 132, 141–42; and displacement , xxvi–xxvii; globalization, xxx; narratives, xxix, 89, 109; Studies, xxxi; subjectivity, xix; as travelers, xxviii assimilation, 70, 109; desire for, 58– 59, 134 Attebery, Brian, 149n2 Austen, Jane, 83–84, 141 Bakhtin, M. M., 69–70, 90; Bakhtinian carnival, 83 Bales, Kevin, 24 Index 169 Balibar, Etienne, 45, 146n2 Bannerji, Himani, xviii Barber, Pauline, 74 Bartky, Sandra Lee, 72, 91, 106, 115–16 Basch, Linda, 6, 25–26 beauty, 105, 115–16; myth, 104, 106; pageant, 64–69, 73, 75 Beiser, Morton, 55 Bell, Shannon, 21–22 Bend It Like Beckham (Chadha), 77 Berson, Misha, 44 Bhabha, Homi, xxix, 71, 129 Bhutto, Benazir, xiii Bildungsroman (novel of development ), 19, 110, 130 Bollywood, 63, 76–77, 81, 86 Bollywood/Hollywood (Mehta), 76–86 borders: national, xiii, xiv; borderless , 19 boundaries, ix, xii, 134; between dominant and minority culture, 44; weakening of, xiv Braidotti, Rosi, 99, 111 Brecher, Jeremy, 104 Bulfinch, Thomas, 105 Bulosan, Carlos, xxxii, 89 Butler, Judith, xxx, 43, 82 Byczynski, Julie, 46 Campomanes, Oscar, xxvi capitalism, ix, 97; critiques of global, xiv–xv, xxxvi, 4, 11 Carey, Mariah, 64, 69 Chai, Arlene, 130–31, 137 Chan, Sucheng, 145n18 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 105 Cheah, Pheng, xxviii–xxix Chen, Ying, 130, 140 Cheung, King-Kok, xix, xx Chin, Frank, xxxii China, 28, 30, 44, 91, memories of, 47–48 Chinese, xvii; Canadian, 45–53, 85; traditions, 47, 49; women, 29, 95 Chiu, Monica, 98–99, 122 Cho, Lily, xvi, xxi, 144n13 Chong, Kevin, 140 Choy, Wayson, 89 Chuh, Kandice, xix, xxiv Clifford, James, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, xxxiii, 127 cloning, 90, 94, 97 Cohen, Robin, xxv–xxvi, xxxvi cold war, xii–xiii comedy, 63, 69, 79 cosmopolitanism, xxxvii; cosmopolitans , 133, 136–37, 141–42 Costello, Tim, 104 Crosby, Janice, 90 Cuder-Dominguez, 148n4 Davis, Lennard, 43–44, 47 Davis, Rocío, 130 Day, Iyko, xxi de Beauvoir, Simone, 43, 104 de Certeau, Michel, xxx, 62 denationalization, 130, 150n2 Desai, Jigna, 79, 85 diaspora, xvi, xviii, xxi, 30, 100, 127, 130, 133, 144n13; diasporic culture, 49, 75 Dimock, Wai Chee, 130–31, 150n3 Dirlik, Arif, xii, xiv, xxv, xxxii, 4, 95, 101 disability, xxxiv, 43–62, 90 dislocation. See displacement displacement, xxvi–xxvii, xxxiii, 18–19, 44–45, 53, 127 Dissanayake, Wimal, xxxii Divakaruni, Chitra, xxxvi, 89–91, 100–107 domestic worker, x–xi, xxvi, 73–74 dystopia, xxxvi, 98 Earth (Mehta), 76, 80, 139, 147n3 Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee), 137 Eaton, Edith Maude: and Winnifred, xix Edwards, Brent, xiii 170 Index Egoyan, Atom, 79–80 Ehrenreich, Barbara, xxvi, 21 Eng, David, 9–10, 58, 71, 132, 145n5; Q & A, xx Enloe, Cynthia, 23 environment, xiii, xxxvi Espiritu, Yen Le, 55, 129 ethnoscape, 91 exclusion law, xvi Exit Wounds (Bartkowiak), 148n7 Exotica (Egoyan), 148n7 Factory Theatre, 52, 71 fantasy, xxxvi, 90, 107, 117–18, 127–28 father figure, 12, 59, 109 Featherstone, Mike, 63 femininity, 106 feminism: feminist elements, 63; feminist studies, xxxi Filipinos, 68; Filipina bodies, xxxv, 17–18; Filipino Canadians, 63– 76; overseas, 143n4; women, 73; youths, 3–19, 145n4 Finney, Gail, 69–70 Fire (Mehta), 76, 80, 86, 147n3 food: imagery, 115; production issues, 120–21, 126 Foucault, Michel, 64, 91 Fraser, Nancy, 93 Freeman, John, 13 Friedman, Susan Stanford, 131– 32, 141 Fung, Richard, xix Gamber, John, xviii Gawle, Rupa, 77 Gere, Richard, 77 Gessler, Nicholas, 112 Glick Schiller, Nina, 6, 24–26 globality, ix–xiii, 62, 109, 135, 138, 140; critical, xiii, xv, xxx; global identity...