Sunny Xiang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunny Xiang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunny |
| FAMILY NAME | Xiang |
| SIGNATURE | XIANG S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Space-Time Colonialism
Bikinis and Other Atomic Incidents
This article examines a range of mid-twentieth-century American fashions, particularly women's intimate wear, that went by the name of "bikini." In doing so, it identifies the bikini as an overt but unremarkable incident of racial and colonial violence. Treating the nuclear Pacific as conspicuously incidental in mainstream atomic culture enables new insights on the visual interplay between white femininity and primitive sexuality-an interplay tha…
Tonal Intelligence
Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of "Oriental inscrutability" across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work
The Korean Voice of American Empire
This article reads the voice of Henry Park, the narrator of Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, in relation to the oratorical voice of Syngman Rhee, the inaugural South Korean president. Both the model minority and the puppet president become unreliable when the prospect of Korean solidarity is at stake. For both Park and Rhee, an unreliable voice is racialized within the auspices of U.S.-Korean geopolitics, which deems Asian modernity the exception …
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The Korean Voice of American Empire
This article reads the voice of Henry Park, the narrator of Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker, in relation to the oratorical voice of Syngman Rhee, the inaugural South Korean president. Both the model minority and the puppet president become unreliable when the prospect of Korean solidarity is at stake. For both Park and Rhee, an unreliable voice is racialized within the auspices of U.S.-Korean geopolitics, which deems Asian modernity the exception …
Tonal Intelligence
Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of "Oriental inscrutability" across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work
Bikinis and Other Atomic Incidents
This article examines a range of mid-twentieth-century American fashions, particularly women's intimate wear, that went by the name of "bikini." In doing so, it identifies the bikini as an overt but unremarkable incident of racial and colonial violence. Treating the nuclear Pacific as conspicuously incidental in mainstream atomic culture enables new insights on the visual interplay between white femininity and primitive sexuality-an interplay tha…
Space-Time Colonialism
Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)