Colleen Lye
Biographic Data
| ID | 240700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Lye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Lye |
| SIGNATURE | LYE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Real
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century
After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech …
Identity Politics, Criticism, and Self-Criticism
If one of French Maoism's main contributions to the sixties' cultural turn was a theory of the relative autonomy of ideology, one of US Maoism's main contributions was identity politics. A product of the application of Mao's theory of contradiction to US circumstances, identity politics also represented a reinvention of ideology critique by US Third World and Black feminist movements, though in this case directed to practical ends
Chimeric World
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Liberal Arts for Asians: A Commentary on Yale-NUS
This critical commentary discusses Yale-NUS College, a recently established liberal arts college in Singapore enabled by a controversial partnership between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. The Yale–NUS collaboration marks a shift in the role of educational institutions in Singapore's neoliberal economy and one that contends with the legacy of Singapore's earlier discourse of ‘Asian values’. The essay analyses the curricu…
Unmarked Character and the “Rise of Asia”: Ed Park's Personal Days
The Literary Case of Wen Ho Lee
Lye's essay produces an important dialogue between historical and literary approaches to the term "Asian American." Comparing two treatments of the Wen Ho Lee story, the "autobiographical" My Country vs. Me , co-written with Helen Zia, and Susan Choi's "historical" novel A Person of Interest , Lye argues for the necessity of historicizing "Asian American" by considering its political and literary senses as non-homologous. Her contrapuntal reading…
The Struggle for Public Education in California: Introduction
When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education was the culmination of a state Republican Party that had for years maintained effective minority rule by grafting the tax wedge onto the racial wedge and a Democratic opposition that cam…
Humanists and the Public University
The precarity of the humanities today is symptomatic of the broader reassessment of the value and utility of the public university. This helps explain the prevalent role of humanists in the recent struggles for public education, but it now also demands from humanists a new level of institutional engagement and reflexivity about the conditions of their labor
US ethnic studies and Third Worldism, 40 years later
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
The Afro-Asian Analogy
If the spate of recent publications on transnational Afro-Asian connections is any indication, we may have finally arrived at a welcome third stage of ethnic studies, one long postponed by a standoff between a multiracial model limited by a national horizon and a diasporic model that lacked a historical ground for conducting cross-racial analysis. The neo-Bandung allegiance of this Afro-Asianism—most prominent in the work of Vijay Prashad and Bil…
Racial Form
This essay takes account of the formalist desires of recent Asian American literary criticism. It argues that a focus on form may discover firmer ground for the future of Asian American studies, but only if that focus remains cognizant of the interdisciplinary origins of Asian American studies
Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies
American Naturalism and Asiatic Racial Form: "Frank Norris's The Octopus and Moran of the "Lady Letty
American literary naturalism is well known for its formal engagement with determination and abstraction and its thematic preoccupation with Anglo-Saxon degeneration. Yet the central importance of the U.S.-Asian border to the literature's elaboration of the imperial contradictions of monopoly finance capitalism has been largely overlooked. Taking up the question of U.S. anti-Asian anticapitalism, a political movement with which American naturalism…
Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
Book Review| September 01 2001 Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America By Patricia Chu. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 241 pp. Cloth,$49.95; paper, $17.95. Colleen Lye Colleen Lye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 664–665. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-664 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Colleen Lye; As…
US ethnic studies and Third Worldism, 40 years later
Identity Politics, Criticism, and Self-Criticism
If one of French Maoism's main contributions to the sixties' cultural turn was a theory of the relative autonomy of ideology, one of US Maoism's main contributions was identity politics. A product of the application of Mao's theory of contradiction to US circumstances, identity politics also represented a reinvention of ideology critique by US Third World and Black feminist movements, though in this case directed to practical ends
Unmarked Character and the “Rise of Asia”: Ed Park's Personal Days
The Literary Case of Wen Ho Lee
Lye's essay produces an important dialogue between historical and literary approaches to the term "Asian American." Comparing two treatments of the Wen Ho Lee story, the "autobiographical" My Country vs. Me , co-written with Helen Zia, and Susan Choi's "historical" novel A Person of Interest , Lye argues for the necessity of historicizing "Asian American" by considering its political and literary senses as non-homologous. Her contrapuntal reading…
The Struggle for Public Education in California: Introduction
When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education was the culmination of a state Republican Party that had for years maintained effective minority rule by grafting the tax wedge onto the racial wedge and a Democratic opposition that cam…
Racial Form
This essay takes account of the formalist desires of recent Asian American literary criticism. It argues that a focus on form may discover firmer ground for the future of Asian American studies, but only if that focus remains cognizant of the interdisciplinary origins of Asian American studies
Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies
Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
Book Review| September 01 2001 Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America By Patricia Chu. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 241 pp. Cloth,$49.95; paper, $17.95. Colleen Lye Colleen Lye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 664–665. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-664 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Colleen Lye; As…
American Naturalism and Asiatic Racial Form: "Frank Norris's The Octopus and Moran of the "Lady Letty
American literary naturalism is well known for its formal engagement with determination and abstraction and its thematic preoccupation with Anglo-Saxon degeneration. Yet the central importance of the U.S.-Asian border to the literature's elaboration of the imperial contradictions of monopoly finance capitalism has been largely overlooked. Taking up the question of U.S. anti-Asian anticapitalism, a political movement with which American naturalism…
Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies
The Afro-Asian Analogy
If the spate of recent publications on transnational Afro-Asian connections is any indication, we may have finally arrived at a welcome third stage of ethnic studies, one long postponed by a standoff between a multiracial model limited by a national horizon and a diasporic model that lacked a historical ground for conducting cross-racial analysis. The neo-Bandung allegiance of this Afro-Asianism—most prominent in the work of Vijay Prashad and Bil…
Racial Form
This essay takes account of the formalist desires of recent Asian American literary criticism. It argues that a focus on form may discover firmer ground for the future of Asian American studies, but only if that focus remains cognizant of the interdisciplinary origins of Asian American studies
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
US ethnic studies and Third Worldism, 40 years later
The Literary Case of Wen Ho Lee
Lye's essay produces an important dialogue between historical and literary approaches to the term "Asian American." Comparing two treatments of the Wen Ho Lee story, the "autobiographical" My Country vs. Me , co-written with Helen Zia, and Susan Choi's "historical" novel A Person of Interest , Lye argues for the necessity of historicizing "Asian American" by considering its political and literary senses as non-homologous. Her contrapuntal reading…
The Struggle for Public Education in California: Introduction
When then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the California higher education budget by 20 percent in 2009, the largest protests erupted on University of California campuses than had been seen in the United States since the 1960s. The struggle for public education was the culmination of a state Republican Party that had for years maintained effective minority rule by grafting the tax wedge onto the racial wedge and a Democratic opposition that cam…
Humanists and the Public University
The precarity of the humanities today is symptomatic of the broader reassessment of the value and utility of the public university. This helps explain the prevalent role of humanists in the recent struggles for public education, but it now also demands from humanists a new level of institutional engagement and reflexivity about the conditions of their labor
Unmarked Character and the “Rise of Asia”: Ed Park's Personal Days
Liberal Arts for Asians: A Commentary on Yale-NUS
This critical commentary discusses Yale-NUS College, a recently established liberal arts college in Singapore enabled by a controversial partnership between Yale University and the National University of Singapore. The Yale–NUS collaboration marks a shift in the role of educational institutions in Singapore's neoliberal economy and one that contends with the legacy of Singapore's earlier discourse of ‘Asian values’. The essay analyses the curricu…
Chimeric World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Identity Politics, Criticism, and Self-Criticism
If one of French Maoism's main contributions to the sixties' cultural turn was a theory of the relative autonomy of ideology, one of US Maoism's main contributions was identity politics. A product of the application of Mao's theory of contradiction to US circumstances, identity politics also represented a reinvention of ideology critique by US Third World and Black feminist movements, though in this case directed to practical ends
After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century
After Marx:Literature, Theory and Value demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline. The volume includes fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist literary criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech …
Real
Entry for special issue, 'Keywords for Value and Culture'
Political science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)