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Picturing Model Citizens

Civility in Asian American Visual Culture

Autor: Thy Phu

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Editura: Temple University Press,U.S.

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At the heart of the model minority myth - often associated with Asian Americans - is the concept of...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Thy Phu

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

218

EAN

9781439907214

Enbook ID

05076034

Editura

Temple University Press,U.S.

Greutate

318

Dimensiuni

156 x 235 x 18

Descriere completă

At the heart of the model minority myth - often associated with Asian Americans - is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship. Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Japanese internment camps, the Hiroshima Maidens project, napalm victims, and the SARS epidemic, Phu explores civility's unexpected appearance in images that draw on discourses of intimacy, cultivation, apology, and hygiene. She reveals how Asian American visual culture illustrates not only cultural ideas of civility, but also contests the contradictions of state-defined citizenship. Thy Phu is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Western Ontario. She is editor of the Americas region for the journal Photography and Culture, and coeditor (with Elspeth Brown) of a collection of essays entitled Feeling Photography.