David Palumbo‐liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4526843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Palumbo‐liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Palumbo‐liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Association of Comparative Study of World Literature |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fragmented Forms and Shifting Contexts
Social media solicits a reaction, a response, a statement of either affirmation or negation. It is a fragmented form that demands to be formed and reformed by a crowd. This chapter argues that mass Web media, and social media in particular, are as bereft of context as they are immensely powerful provokers of affect. Social media presents a huge opportunity to advance human rights work; it also can interfere with it and even harm it. It is importa…
Why and How Is Academic Freedom Important for Ethnic Studies
Why and How Is Academic Freedom Important for Ethnic Studies? David Palumbo-Liu (bio) Rather than use this space to venture into large philosophical questions about academic freedom or repeat commonly understood points about the topic, I want to use this opportunity simply to highlight some key points regarding academic freedom’s particular import with regard to ethnic studies. But before we get to ethnic studies, we need to be clear about what w…
D'où Venons Nous, Que Sommes Nous, Où Allons Nous
2 A & Q whose work, institutional locations, geographic foci, and disciplinary training showcase Verge’s range and interests. Bringing together scholars working in disparate fields—including literary studies, history, political science, theater studies, film and media studies, art history, geography, and urban planning—we asked contributors to reflect on the state of their discipline and field at the present time and to consider what they themsel…
Beyond Structuralisms
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
Embedded Lives
“Embedded Lives: The House of Fiction, the House of History” tells how a historical event became narrated through different media and disciplinary discourses by a number of participants, through many years and in different spaces. It takes the 1977 eviction of a group of elderly Filipinos from the International Hotel in San Francisco, and the protests against that eviction, as a starting point of a series of imbricated stories that lead up to tod…
Uncertainty
Research Article| March 01 2009 Uncertainty David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Stanford University [email protected] David Palumbo-Liu is professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. At present he is working on a book on globalization, narrative, and ethics and co-editing a collection of essays on world-systems analysis, the humanities, and social sciences with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi, titled Immanuel Wallerstein…
Prose and Poetry
Chair: David Palumbo-Liu Committee members: Crystal Parikh, Rob Wilson Winners: We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan (Prose) The Year of the Snake by Lee Ann Roripaugh (Poetry) Honorable Mentions: The Temperature of this Water by Ishle Yi Park (Poetry) Children of a Fireland by Gary Pak (Prose) The panelists were deeply impressed by the meticulous and inventive style of Aimee Phan's novel, We Should Never Meet, by its daring use of montage and disc…
Preemption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination
Re-imagining Asian American Studies
Contributing editor Arif Dirlik has lucidly posed the key questions before us with regard to several possible configurations of Asian American Studies in the academy. He has outlined the advantages and disadvantages of each and sketched out the most salient terms for our debates. What follows is an attempt to address some of the issues regarding the institutional configuration for what we do and furthermore, what we might aspire to do.I hope ther…
Multiculturalism Now
Research Article| May 01 2002 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 109–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Palumbo-Liu; Multiculturalism Now: Civiliz…
The Operative Heart
THE HISTORY OF TISSUE AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN WESTERN MEDICINE HAS always been involved with questions of singularity, sharing, and politics. As early as the sixteenth-century, Gaspari Tagliocozzi, a surgeon who was also Professor of Anatomy and Professor of Medicine at the University of Bologna, wrote of grafting skin to form a nose on those who were noseless (recall that in those days nasal amputation was a common form of punishment—we are spe…
Asian/American
Against Race , Yes, but at What Cost
(2001). Against Race, Yes, but at What Cost? Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-21
Civilization and Dissent
Civilization and Dissent
The events of September 11th and following have been shocking beyond belief. For me, part of the shock has been the almost instantaneous contradiction in public-speak: the simultaneous evocation of the notion that the world has changed, that the war we will fight will be a new war, and the rearticulation of only slightly-modified Cold War rhetoric and civilizational discourse. Indeed, in his address before Congress on September 20th, George W. Bu…
Assumed Identities
One would think that the topic of identity (post-, or otherwise) would have been exhausted by now. When the word is mentioned these days, it tends not to meet with a straightening of the back and a defiant stare, nor even a wince and an evasive move, but rather a resigned sigh--"Oh, that again?" The constant probing, critiquing, stretching, shrinking of the term over the past two decades seems not to have resolved anything. At best it has marked …
Streams of Cultural Capital
Well, I have to confess it took me a while to get over the title of this collection. I am afraid it brought out the brat in me; I tried rhyming alternatives (Creams of Cultural Capital) and water metaphor alternatives (Swamps of Cultural Capital) to exercise/exorcise my annoyance, with limited success in each area. However, the title, which I found off-putting in its naturalizing and reifying of the concept of cultural capital, provides my only r…
The Poetics of Appropriation
The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra
The Poetics of Appropriation
Theory and the Subject of Asian America Studies
Universalisms and Minority Culture
Research Article| April 01 1995 Universalisms and Minority Culture David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu david palumbo-liu is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His essays have been published in Amerasia Journal, Cultural Critique, Public Culture, and in other journals and various critical collections. He is the editor of Intervening in the Ethnic Canon: Histories and Institutions, which is forthcoming from the Un…
Can Academics Teach Public Culture
The Minority Self as Other
Mrs. C. T. said last night that when the small children play around the block, often they say, Let's play killing the Japs. The older people look at each other sadly, but they don't say anything because they think the children are too young to explain to them. They don't realize 'Jap and 'Japanese mean the same thing. -Anonymous journal entry, Poston, 1943, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps
Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms
Other| May 01 1994 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-365 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
Multiculturalism Now
Research Article| May 01 2002 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 109–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Palumbo-Liu; Multiculturalism Now: Civiliz…
Preemption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination
Universalisms and Minority Culture
Research Article| April 01 1995 Universalisms and Minority Culture David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu david palumbo-liu is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His essays have been published in Amerasia Journal, Cultural Critique, Public Culture, and in other journals and various critical collections. He is the editor of Intervening in the Ethnic Canon: Histories and Institutions, which is forthcoming from the Un…
The Operative Heart
THE HISTORY OF TISSUE AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN WESTERN MEDICINE HAS always been involved with questions of singularity, sharing, and politics. As early as the sixteenth-century, Gaspari Tagliocozzi, a surgeon who was also Professor of Anatomy and Professor of Medicine at the University of Bologna, wrote of grafting skin to form a nose on those who were noseless (recall that in those days nasal amputation was a common form of punishment—we are spe…
The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra
Theory and the Subject of Asian America Studies
The Minority Self as Other
Mrs. C. T. said last night that when the small children play around the block, often they say, Let's play killing the Japs. The older people look at each other sadly, but they don't say anything because they think the children are too young to explain to them. They don't realize 'Jap and 'Japanese mean the same thing. -Anonymous journal entry, Poston, 1943, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps
Toshio Mori and the Attachments of Spirit
Toshio Mori and the Attachments of Spirit
The Poetics of Appropriation
The poets of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) were writing after what was then and still is acknowledged to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, the Tang dynasty (618-907). This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals how their response shaped their literary art. The author's focus is on the poetic theory and practice of the poet Huang Tingjian (1045-1105). Thi…
Can Academics Teach Public Culture
The Minority Self as Other
Mrs. C. T. said last night that when the small children play around the block, often they say, Let's play killing the Japs. The older people look at each other sadly, but they don't say anything because they think the children are too young to explain to them. They don't realize 'Jap and 'Japanese mean the same thing. -Anonymous journal entry, Poston, 1943, in Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps
Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms
Other| May 01 1994 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 365–381. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-365 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Ema…
The Poetics of Appropriation
The Bitter Tea of Frank Capra
The Poetics of Appropriation
Theory and the Subject of Asian America Studies
Universalisms and Minority Culture
Research Article| April 01 1995 Universalisms and Minority Culture David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu david palumbo-liu is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. His essays have been published in Amerasia Journal, Cultural Critique, Public Culture, and in other journals and various critical collections. He is the editor of Intervening in the Ethnic Canon: Histories and Institutions, which is forthcoming from the Un…
Assumed Identities
One would think that the topic of identity (post-, or otherwise) would have been exhausted by now. When the word is mentioned these days, it tends not to meet with a straightening of the back and a defiant stare, nor even a wince and an evasive move, but rather a resigned sigh--"Oh, that again?" The constant probing, critiquing, stretching, shrinking of the term over the past two decades seems not to have resolved anything. At best it has marked …
Streams of Cultural Capital
Well, I have to confess it took me a while to get over the title of this collection. I am afraid it brought out the brat in me; I tried rhyming alternatives (Creams of Cultural Capital) and water metaphor alternatives (Swamps of Cultural Capital) to exercise/exorcise my annoyance, with limited success in each area. However, the title, which I found off-putting in its naturalizing and reifying of the concept of cultural capital, provides my only r…
Asian/American
Against Race , Yes, but at What Cost
(2001). Against Race, Yes, but at What Cost? Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-21
Civilization and Dissent
Civilization and Dissent
The events of September 11th and following have been shocking beyond belief. For me, part of the shock has been the almost instantaneous contradiction in public-speak: the simultaneous evocation of the notion that the world has changed, that the war we will fight will be a new war, and the rearticulation of only slightly-modified Cold War rhetoric and civilizational discourse. Indeed, in his address before Congress on September 20th, George W. Bu…
Multiculturalism Now
Research Article| May 01 2002 Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 109–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Palumbo-Liu; Multiculturalism Now: Civiliz…
The Operative Heart
THE HISTORY OF TISSUE AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN WESTERN MEDICINE HAS always been involved with questions of singularity, sharing, and politics. As early as the sixteenth-century, Gaspari Tagliocozzi, a surgeon who was also Professor of Anatomy and Professor of Medicine at the University of Bologna, wrote of grafting skin to form a nose on those who were noseless (recall that in those days nasal amputation was a common form of punishment—we are spe…
Re-imagining Asian American Studies
Contributing editor Arif Dirlik has lucidly posed the key questions before us with regard to several possible configurations of Asian American Studies in the academy. He has outlined the advantages and disadvantages of each and sketched out the most salient terms for our debates. What follows is an attempt to address some of the issues regarding the institutional configuration for what we do and furthermore, what we might aspire to do.I hope ther…
Prose and Poetry
Chair: David Palumbo-Liu Committee members: Crystal Parikh, Rob Wilson Winners: We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan (Prose) The Year of the Snake by Lee Ann Roripaugh (Poetry) Honorable Mentions: The Temperature of this Water by Ishle Yi Park (Poetry) Children of a Fireland by Gary Pak (Prose) The panelists were deeply impressed by the meticulous and inventive style of Aimee Phan's novel, We Should Never Meet, by its daring use of montage and disc…
Preemption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination
Uncertainty
Research Article| March 01 2009 Uncertainty David Palumbo-Liu David Palumbo-Liu Stanford University [email protected] David Palumbo-Liu is professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. At present he is working on a book on globalization, narrative, and ethics and co-editing a collection of essays on world-systems analysis, the humanities, and social sciences with Bruce Robbins and Nirvana Tanoukhi, titled Immanuel Wallerstein…
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
Embedded Lives
“Embedded Lives: The House of Fiction, the House of History” tells how a historical event became narrated through different media and disciplinary discourses by a number of participants, through many years and in different spaces. It takes the 1977 eviction of a group of elderly Filipinos from the International Hotel in San Francisco, and the protests against that eviction, as a starting point of a series of imbricated stories that lead up to tod…
Beyond Structuralisms
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