Long Le-Khac
Biographic Data
| ID | 1150447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Long Le-Khac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Long |
| FAMILY NAME | Le-Khac |
| SIGNATURE | LE-KHAC L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in Saint Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3203-4139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Racial Entanglements
This essay addresses the need for relational transpacific approaches to race and empire across groups, species, and sites. Pacific Islander knowledge is crucial for such approaches, but Asian American-ists must avoid extracting it. We should develop distinct frameworks accountable to Native Pacific knowledge. Juxtaposing Kanaka Maoli concepts with Asian American scholarship and Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being , I assemble a racial en…
"BLM Insurgent Discourse, White Structures of Feeling and the Fate of the 2020 "Racial Awakening
Working with Twitter data, this paper offers new findings on the #BlackLivesMatter movement and "racial awakening" of summer 2020. Framing methods to address this important moment, this paper contends that cultural studies and critical race studies can be enriched through an engagement with new computational approaches. We analyze how white and racial minority voices talked about race and track their fraught contestation for leadership of racial …
The Asian American Literature We’ve Constructed
This article deploys text mining and quantitative analysis to survey the breadth of the Asian American literary corpus and the scholarship framing it. We have built a database covering all scholarship in the MLA bibliography, Amerasia, and the Journal of Asian American Studies that studies a literary work under the rubric of Asian American. For the works and authors cited, we collected a wealth of metadata from publisher and genre to gender, ethn…
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Narrating the Transnational
This essay argues that Aimee Phan's short story cycle We Should Never Meet (2004) offers a form that makes perceptible the linked trajectories conditioning refugee displacements. Mapping the fallout from the evacuation of children from South Vietnam, this story cycle draws out the relations among the vectors of US power and the mass displacements they produce, as well as the uncertain positions the displaced inhabit in the United States. Phan's t…
Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post-civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collec…
Narrating the Transnational
This essay argues that Aimee Phan's short story cycle We Should Never Meet (2004) offers a form that makes perceptible the linked trajectories conditioning refugee displacements. Mapping the fallout from the evacuation of children from South Vietnam, this story cycle draws out the relations among the vectors of US power and the mass displacements they produce, as well as the uncertain positions the displaced inhabit in the United States. Phan's t…
Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post-civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collec…
Narrating the Transnational
This essay argues that Aimee Phan's short story cycle We Should Never Meet (2004) offers a form that makes perceptible the linked trajectories conditioning refugee displacements. Mapping the fallout from the evacuation of children from South Vietnam, this story cycle draws out the relations among the vectors of US power and the mass displacements they produce, as well as the uncertain positions the displaced inhabit in the United States. Phan's t…
Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post-civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collec…
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America
The Asian American Literature We’ve Constructed
This article deploys text mining and quantitative analysis to survey the breadth of the Asian American literary corpus and the scholarship framing it. We have built a database covering all scholarship in the MLA bibliography, Amerasia, and the Journal of Asian American Studies that studies a literary work under the rubric of Asian American. For the works and authors cited, we collected a wealth of metadata from publisher and genre to gender, ethn…
"BLM Insurgent Discourse, White Structures of Feeling and the Fate of the 2020 "Racial Awakening
Working with Twitter data, this paper offers new findings on the #BlackLivesMatter movement and "racial awakening" of summer 2020. Framing methods to address this important moment, this paper contends that cultural studies and critical race studies can be enriched through an engagement with new computational approaches. We analyze how white and racial minority voices talked about race and track their fraught contestation for leadership of racial …
Racial Entanglements
This essay addresses the need for relational transpacific approaches to race and empire across groups, species, and sites. Pacific Islander knowledge is crucial for such approaches, but Asian American-ists must avoid extracting it. We should develop distinct frameworks accountable to Native Pacific knowledge. Juxtaposing Kanaka Maoli concepts with Asian American scholarship and Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being , I assemble a racial en…
Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · American literature (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian americans (2 works)