Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women

by Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Book Overview

In Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mutually imbricated modes of identity formation, representation, and knowledge production. Kang's project is simultaneously interdisciplinary scholarship at its best and a critique of the very disciplinary formations she draws upon. The book opens by tracking the jagged emergence of "Asian American women" as a distinct social identity over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328984
• ISBN13: 9780822328988
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"