Erin Suzuki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626671 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Suzuki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Suzuki |
| SIGNATURE | SUZUKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erin Suzuki is an assistant professor of English at Emory University. She is currently working on a manuscript that focuses on the intersections of Asian American and indigenous Pacific Island literatures. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction
Written in the wake of the Japanese incarceration and the emergence of new Cold War discourses around race, privacy, and democracy, Hisaye Yamamoto’s and John Okada’s works mark a shift from the specific targeting of Japanese Americans as individuals whose citizenship was contingent upon enforced transparency to the broader suspicion of the more generalized “Oriental” as a figure whose opacity becomes an excuse for racialized surveillance and pol…
Excerpt from Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures
From Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures, by Erin Suzuki, pages 1-5. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2021 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved. Publisher website: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/ocean-passages
The Transpacific in Relation: Anticolonial Solidarities and Feminist Collaboration
The Transpacific Subject in Asian American Culture
The use of the term transpacific in Asian American studies should be reevaluated vis-à-vis Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, and Oceanic studies. In particular, following Lisa Yoneyama’s model for examining “decolonial genealogies of transpacific studies,” such a reevaluation emphasizes interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and, above all, a reckoning with settler taxonomies of intellectual production as vital to the continued use of the ter…
And the View from the Ship: Setting Asian American Studies Asail
44 A & Q to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i, edited by Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Okamura, 45–65. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Tuck, Eve, and Wayne Yang. 2012. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 1, no. 1: 1– 39. Veracini, Lorenzo. 2010. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Vimalassery, Manu, Juliana Hu Pegues, and Alyosha Goldstein. 20…
Beasts from the Deep
Why do so many monsters ply the deep waters of the Pacific? The Pacific has been a breeding ground for all kinds of fictional beasts bearing apocalyptic significance, from Moby Dick to Godzilla. This article analyzes three sci-fi movies from the early 2010s—Peter Berg’s Battleship (2012), Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013), and Gareth Edwards’s remake of Godzilla (2014)—to argue that the films’ aquatic antagonists operate as allegories for t…
Cheesiness as Neocolonial Aesthetic
Offering careful analyses of Psy's Gangnam Style YouTube video and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this essay elaborates on as an aesthetic tied to the post-imperial cultural history of the Pacific Rim. The author argues that cheesiness represents a soft colonialism that complements economic, political, and legal structures
Beasts from the Deep
Why do so many monsters ply the deep waters of the Pacific? The Pacific has been a breeding ground for all kinds of fictional beasts bearing apocalyptic significance, from Moby Dick to Godzilla. This article analyzes three sci-fi movies from the early 2010s—Peter Berg’s Battleship (2012), Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013), and Gareth Edwards’s remake of Godzilla (2014)—to argue that the films’ aquatic antagonists operate as allegories for t…
Cheesiness as Neocolonial Aesthetic
Offering careful analyses of Psy's Gangnam Style YouTube video and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this essay elaborates on as an aesthetic tied to the post-imperial cultural history of the Pacific Rim. The author argues that cheesiness represents a soft colonialism that complements economic, political, and legal structures
Beasts from the Deep
Why do so many monsters ply the deep waters of the Pacific? The Pacific has been a breeding ground for all kinds of fictional beasts bearing apocalyptic significance, from Moby Dick to Godzilla. This article analyzes three sci-fi movies from the early 2010s—Peter Berg’s Battleship (2012), Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013), and Gareth Edwards’s remake of Godzilla (2014)—to argue that the films’ aquatic antagonists operate as allegories for t…
And the View from the Ship: Setting Asian American Studies Asail
44 A & Q to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i, edited by Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Okamura, 45–65. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Tuck, Eve, and Wayne Yang. 2012. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, and Society 1, no. 1: 1– 39. Veracini, Lorenzo. 2010. Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Vimalassery, Manu, Juliana Hu Pegues, and Alyosha Goldstein. 20…
The Transpacific Subject in Asian American Culture
The use of the term transpacific in Asian American studies should be reevaluated vis-à-vis Pacific studies, Indigenous studies, and Oceanic studies. In particular, following Lisa Yoneyama’s model for examining “decolonial genealogies of transpacific studies,” such a reevaluation emphasizes interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and, above all, a reckoning with settler taxonomies of intellectual production as vital to the continued use of the ter…
Excerpt from Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures
From Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures, by Erin Suzuki, pages 1-5. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2021 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved. Publisher website: https://tupress.temple.edu/books/ocean-passages
The Transpacific in Relation: Anticolonial Solidarities and Feminist Collaboration
Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction
Written in the wake of the Japanese incarceration and the emergence of new Cold War discourses around race, privacy, and democracy, Hisaye Yamamoto’s and John Okada’s works mark a shift from the specific targeting of Japanese Americans as individuals whose citizenship was contingent upon enforced transparency to the broader suspicion of the more generalized “Oriental” as a figure whose opacity becomes an excuse for racialized surveillance and pol…
Sociology (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works)