Timothy K August
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy K August |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy K |
| FAMILY NAME | August |
| SIGNATURE | AUGUST T K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5768-4683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diasporic still life
This article revisits and reevaluates the role that “stasis” can play as a literary technique in diasporic Chinese Canadian writing. To these ends I read Chinese Canadian author Judy Fong Bates’s debut novel Midnight at the Dragon Café (2005) as an important and intimate map of the social geography of a small Canadian town that illuminates how diasporic Chinese life is both constructed and constricted by the institution of the Chinese restaurant.…
All the Promise in the World
The central premise of this article is that reading The Book of Salt as a work of world literature shifts the temporal and spatial sites, as well as the reading practices, involved in thinking about Vietnamese American literature and subjectivity away from the effects of the so-called Vietnam War and toward a long historical view that compares how Vietnamese actors have accrued, and continue to accrue, worth within differing regimes of global val…
Introduction—Vietnam, War, and the Global Imagination
Introduction—Le Vietnam, la guerre et l'imaginaire mondial
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Re-placing the Accent
This essay calls attention to the political potential of the refugee position and articulates a poetics of refugee aesthetic form. The piece tracks the development of a new refugee style, which consists of three main characteristics, where authors 1) respond to the demand to explain one’s presence; 2) gesture towards social identities; and 3) articulate a future for all refugee communities that acknowledges the lasting qualities engendered by the…
What's Eating Asian American Studies
The Turn to “Bad Koreans”
This article examines the production and negotiation of Korean American televisual images in U.S. reality and travel food programs. We explore two different representations of Korean Americanness, the first in CNN’s Parts Unknown and the second in Bravo TV’s Top Chef, to identify the demand for ethnic transformation that Korean Americans face and examine how these trials reanimate the role of Korean Americans on television. We argue that the icon…
This Is All I Choose to Tell
Reviewed by: This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Timothy K. August (bio) This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature, by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. xvii + 216 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1439902172. The first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, This Is All I Choose to Tell is unquestionably an essent…
The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration
Journal Article The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration: Vietnamese American Bodies in Top Chef and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner Get access Timothy K. August Timothy K. August University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 97–116, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0052 Published: 01 September 2012
The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration
Journal Article The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration: Vietnamese American Bodies in Top Chef and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner Get access Timothy K. August Timothy K. August University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 97–116, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0052 Published: 01 September 2012
What's Eating Asian American Studies
The Turn to “Bad Koreans”
This article examines the production and negotiation of Korean American televisual images in U.S. reality and travel food programs. We explore two different representations of Korean Americanness, the first in CNN’s Parts Unknown and the second in Bravo TV’s Top Chef, to identify the demand for ethnic transformation that Korean Americans face and examine how these trials reanimate the role of Korean Americans on television. We argue that the icon…
This Is All I Choose to Tell
Reviewed by: This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Timothy K. August (bio) This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature, by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. xvii + 216 pp. $21.95 paper. ISBN: 978-1439902172. The first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, This Is All I Choose to Tell is unquestionably an essent…
The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration
Journal Article The Contradictions in Culinary Collaboration: Vietnamese American Bodies in Top Chef and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner Get access Timothy K. August Timothy K. August University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2012, Pages 97–116, https://doi.org/10.1353/mel.2012.0052 Published: 01 September 2012
The Turn to “Bad Koreans”
This article examines the production and negotiation of Korean American televisual images in U.S. reality and travel food programs. We explore two different representations of Korean Americanness, the first in CNN’s Parts Unknown and the second in Bravo TV’s Top Chef, to identify the demand for ethnic transformation that Korean Americans face and examine how these trials reanimate the role of Korean Americans on television. We argue that the icon…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Re-placing the Accent
This essay calls attention to the political potential of the refugee position and articulates a poetics of refugee aesthetic form. The piece tracks the development of a new refugee style, which consists of three main characteristics, where authors 1) respond to the demand to explain one’s presence; 2) gesture towards social identities; and 3) articulate a future for all refugee communities that acknowledges the lasting qualities engendered by the…
What's Eating Asian American Studies
All the Promise in the World
The central premise of this article is that reading The Book of Salt as a work of world literature shifts the temporal and spatial sites, as well as the reading practices, involved in thinking about Vietnamese American literature and subjectivity away from the effects of the so-called Vietnam War and toward a long historical view that compares how Vietnamese actors have accrued, and continue to accrue, worth within differing regimes of global val…
Introduction—Vietnam, War, and the Global Imagination
Introduction—Le Vietnam, la guerre et l'imaginaire mondial
Diasporic still life
This article revisits and reevaluates the role that “stasis” can play as a literary technique in diasporic Chinese Canadian writing. To these ends I read Chinese Canadian author Judy Fong Bates’s debut novel Midnight at the Dragon Café (2005) as an important and intimate map of the social geography of a small Canadian town that illuminates how diasporic Chinese life is both constructed and constricted by the institution of the Chinese restaurant.…
Art (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)