Cynthia Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7364-0613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies
The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited. Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking a…
State Violence Is Chronic
State Violence Is Chronic Cynthia Wu (bio) In July 2016, I wrote an essay geared for a general readership on the significance of Black Lives Matter for nonblack people of color.1 I started composing it two days after Jeronimo Yanez, a police officer in the Falcon Heights suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, shot and killed Philando Castile after pulling him over during a traffic stop. The story had hit home for me because I lived in a neighborhood only…
Rethinking Embodiment and Hybridity: Mixed-Race, Adoptee, and Disabled Subjectivities
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Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo (review)
Reviewed by: Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo Cynthia Wu (bio) Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Xiii + 251 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 978-0816667574. Kale Fajardo’s Filipino Crosscurrents is a study of contemporary patterns of transnational moveme…
Introduction: Debt: The Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning
Introduction: DebtThe Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning Cynthia Wu (bio) and Kritika Agarwal (bio) Fae Myenne Ng’s novel, Bone, revolves around the aftermath of a young woman’s suicide in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Ona, the middle child of the Leong family, left few clues that would have allowed her loved ones to make sense of her death, with the result that each family member would be left to assign his or her own explanation and blame. The nontel…
Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables” as an Antidraft Tract
Fiction writer Hisaye Yamamoto has commonly been read as an author who tackles the complex interplay between racism and sexism in Asian America. Much of the literary-critical scholarship on her work focuses on the multiple oppressions her female characters face and the strategies they use to maneuver the limited spaces of agency that are open to them. This interpretive logic has overlooked how Yamamoto also provides a keen critique of the violenc…
Beliefs and Knowledge about Vaccination against AH1N1pdm09 Infection and Uptake Factors among Chinese Parents
Vaccination against AH1N1pdm09 infection (human swine infection, HSI) is an effective measure of preventing pandemic infection, especially for high-risk groups like children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. This study used a cross-sectional correlation design and aimed to identify predicting factors of parental acceptance of the HSI vaccine (HSIV) and uptake of the vaccination by their preschool-aged children in Hong Kong. A total of 250…
Association between Screen Viewing Duration and Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness among Adolescents in Hong Kong
Screen viewing is considered to have adverse impacts on the sleep of adolescents. Although there has been a considerable amount of research on the association between screen viewing and sleep, most studies have focused on specific types of screen viewing devices such as televisions and computers. The present study investigated the duration with which currently prevalent screen viewing devices (including televisions, personal computers, mobile pho…
Animating Contemporary Culture
Mel Y. Chen's Animacies is an impressive monograph that brings together a staggering array of conversations in the fields of posthumanism, animal studies, environmental justice studies, queer affect theory, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, and cognitive linguistics. This thoroughly researched book highlights the heretofore unexplored connections among racialized difference, nonhuman animality, and metallurgical toxicity with an eye to…
Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and…
Book Review| September 01 2014 Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. By Romero, Channette. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2012. viii, 217 pp. Cloth, $…
Give Me the Stump Which Gives You the Right to Hold Your Head High“ – A Homoerotics of Disability in Asian Americanist Critique
This essay performs a reading of John Okada's novel No-No Boy that examines the latent homoeroticism between the two main characters, one a disabled veteran and the other a draft resister. It shows how male-male desire may heal ruptures among Japanese American men in the wake of World War II. In doing so, this essay urges a rethinking of the terms on which Okada's novel was embraced by Asian American literary cultural nationalism in the 1970s
Revisiting Blu's Hanging
My essay addresses non-normative genders and sexualities in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, a controversial novel set in Hawai'i that-although commercially successful and critically acclaimed-has spurred protests over its racist portrayals of Filipino masculinity. I show how East Asian ethnic/class privilege alternately embraces heteronormativity and mounts challenges to it at key points in the narrative. I argue that the novel falls short of …
The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation
This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch "Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins" and Thomas Nast's political cartoon "The American Twins" use Chang and Eng Bunker as metaphors to discuss national unity at key moments …
Double agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture Cynthia Wu (bio) Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. By Tina Chen . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Tina Chen's Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture is a literary-critical tour de force that proposes a hermeneutics of Asian American subjectivity and identity throu…
Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals
(2002). Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 245-261
Essays in Monetary Economics
Essays in Monetary Economics Get access Essays in Monetary Economics. By Harry G. Johnson. 2nd ed. with new Introduction. London: Allen & Unwin. 1969. 332 pp. Bibliog. Index. (Unwin University Books, 52.) 25s. International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 1970, Page 780, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/46.4.780b Published: 01 October 1970
Essays in Monetary Economics
Essays in Monetary Economics Get access Essays in Monetary Economics. By Harry G. Johnson. 2nd ed. with new Introduction. London: Allen & Unwin. 1969. 332 pp. Bibliog. Index. (Unwin University Books, 52.) 25s. International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 1970, Page 780, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/46.4.780b Published: 01 October 1970
Introduction: Debt: The Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning
Introduction: DebtThe Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning Cynthia Wu (bio) and Kritika Agarwal (bio) Fae Myenne Ng’s novel, Bone, revolves around the aftermath of a young woman’s suicide in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Ona, the middle child of the Leong family, left few clues that would have allowed her loved ones to make sense of her death, with the result that each family member would be left to assign his or her own explanation and blame. The nontel…
The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation
This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch "Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins" and Thomas Nast's political cartoon "The American Twins" use Chang and Eng Bunker as metaphors to discuss national unity at key moments …
Essays in Monetary Economics
Essays in Monetary Economics Get access Essays in Monetary Economics. By Harry G. Johnson. 2nd ed. with new Introduction. London: Allen & Unwin. 1969. 332 pp. Bibliog. Index. (Unwin University Books, 52.) 25s. International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, October 1970, Page 780, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/46.4.780b Published: 01 October 1970
Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals
(2002). Marked Bodies, Marking Time: Reclaiming the Warrior in Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 245-261
Double agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (review)
Reviewed by: Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture Cynthia Wu (bio) Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. By Tina Chen . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. Tina Chen's Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture is a literary-critical tour de force that proposes a hermeneutics of Asian American subjectivity and identity throu…
The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation
This essay uses both ethnic studies and disability studies to read two late-nineteenth-century American texts that refer to Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twin entertainers from the country then known as Siam who were popularly called the Siamese Twins. Mark Twain's sketch "Personal Habits of the Siamese Twins" and Thomas Nast's political cartoon "The American Twins" use Chang and Eng Bunker as metaphors to discuss national unity at key moments …
Revisiting Blu's Hanging
My essay addresses non-normative genders and sexualities in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, a controversial novel set in Hawai'i that-although commercially successful and critically acclaimed-has spurred protests over its racist portrayals of Filipino masculinity. I show how East Asian ethnic/class privilege alternately embraces heteronormativity and mounts challenges to it at key points in the narrative. I argue that the novel falls short of …
Give Me the Stump Which Gives You the Right to Hold Your Head High“ – A Homoerotics of Disability in Asian Americanist Critique
This essay performs a reading of John Okada's novel No-No Boy that examines the latent homoeroticism between the two main characters, one a disabled veteran and the other a draft resister. It shows how male-male desire may heal ruptures among Japanese American men in the wake of World War II. In doing so, this essay urges a rethinking of the terms on which Okada's novel was embraced by Asian American literary cultural nationalism in the 1970s
Asian American Feminism’s Alliances with Men: Reading Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables” as an Antidraft Tract
Fiction writer Hisaye Yamamoto has commonly been read as an author who tackles the complex interplay between racism and sexism in Asian America. Much of the literary-critical scholarship on her work focuses on the multiple oppressions her female characters face and the strategies they use to maneuver the limited spaces of agency that are open to them. This interpretive logic has overlooked how Yamamoto also provides a keen critique of the violenc…
Beliefs and Knowledge about Vaccination against AH1N1pdm09 Infection and Uptake Factors among Chinese Parents
Vaccination against AH1N1pdm09 infection (human swine infection, HSI) is an effective measure of preventing pandemic infection, especially for high-risk groups like children between the ages of 6 months and 6 years. This study used a cross-sectional correlation design and aimed to identify predicting factors of parental acceptance of the HSI vaccine (HSIV) and uptake of the vaccination by their preschool-aged children in Hong Kong. A total of 250…
Association between Screen Viewing Duration and Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness among Adolescents in Hong Kong
Screen viewing is considered to have adverse impacts on the sleep of adolescents. Although there has been a considerable amount of research on the association between screen viewing and sleep, most studies have focused on specific types of screen viewing devices such as televisions and computers. The present study investigated the duration with which currently prevalent screen viewing devices (including televisions, personal computers, mobile pho…
Animating Contemporary Culture
Mel Y. Chen's Animacies is an impressive monograph that brings together a staggering array of conversations in the fields of posthumanism, animal studies, environmental justice studies, queer affect theory, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, and cognitive linguistics. This thoroughly researched book highlights the heretofore unexplored connections among racialized difference, nonhuman animality, and metallurgical toxicity with an eye to…
Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and…
Book Review| September 01 2014 Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. By Romero, Channette. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2012. viii, 217 pp. Cloth, $…
Rethinking Embodiment and Hybridity: Mixed-Race, Adoptee, and Disabled Subjectivities
A summary 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.
Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo (review)
Reviewed by: Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo Cynthia Wu (bio) Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization by Kale Bantigue Fajardo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Xiii + 251 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 978-0816667574. Kale Fajardo’s Filipino Crosscurrents is a study of contemporary patterns of transnational moveme…
Introduction: Debt: The Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning
Introduction: DebtThe Cultural Logics of Owing/Owning Cynthia Wu (bio) and Kritika Agarwal (bio) Fae Myenne Ng’s novel, Bone, revolves around the aftermath of a young woman’s suicide in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Ona, the middle child of the Leong family, left few clues that would have allowed her loved ones to make sense of her death, with the result that each family member would be left to assign his or her own explanation and blame. The nontel…
State Violence Is Chronic
State Violence Is Chronic Cynthia Wu (bio) In July 2016, I wrote an essay geared for a general readership on the significance of Black Lives Matter for nonblack people of color.1 I started composing it two days after Jeronimo Yanez, a police officer in the Falcon Heights suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, shot and killed Philando Castile after pulling him over during a traffic stop. The story had hit home for me because I lived in a neighborhood only…
Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies
The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited. Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking a…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)