Sally E McWilliams
Biographic Data
| ID | 6396649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally E McWilliams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally E |
| FAMILY NAME | McWilliams |
| SIGNATURE | MCWILLIAMS S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Precarious Memories and Affective Relationships in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do is a multilayered feminist interrogation into the power of affective connections and knowledge for second-generation Vietnamese in the United States. I argue that Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir uses techniques of cotemporality, the intertwining of event and insidious trauma, and the performativity of memory through the visual technologies of maps and photographs to destabilize the rhetorics and realities of U.S. exceptionalism …
Illustrated Connections
In The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, Ann Marie Fleming creates an illustrated memoir that highlights the connections between generations of diasporic Chinese subjects. Nominally a memoir about her great-grandfather, Fleming uses the politics of vaudeville and her great-grandfather's career as entry points into an examination of gendered Orientalism, racial exclusion, and nationalism, counterbalanced with depictions of magic, love, family, and cr…
People Don't Attack You If You Dress Fancy
Twenty-first-century Chinese cities are spaces not only of architectural hybridity displaying the co-temporality of the dynastic past and the postsocialist future but also locales in which young women perform and negotiate the polyvalent discourses of what it means to be a woman in China. When many students in U.S. college classrooms are asked to offer images of Chinese women, the most frequent (and in some instances pernicious) representations a…
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty YearsTheorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan’s The Lost Daughter of Happiness Sally E. McWilliams (bio) Diasporic Chinese women's literature presents a recurring struggle to integrate the complexities of national and transnational pasts with contemporary manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual politics and histories. Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness problematizes t…
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years
Diasporic Chinese women's literature presents a recurring struggle to integrate the complexities of national and transnational pasts with contemporary manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual politics and histories. Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness problematizes the narrative conventions used to depict diasporic Chinese female subjects (2001). x Her examination of female subjectivity interrogates how diasporic Chinese women's narra…
Precarious Memories and Affective Relationships in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do is a multilayered feminist interrogation into the power of affective connections and knowledge for second-generation Vietnamese in the United States. I argue that Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir uses techniques of cotemporality, the intertwining of event and insidious trauma, and the performativity of memory through the visual technologies of maps and photographs to destabilize the rhetorics and realities of U.S. exceptionalism …
People Don't Attack You If You Dress Fancy
Twenty-first-century Chinese cities are spaces not only of architectural hybridity displaying the co-temporality of the dynastic past and the postsocialist future but also locales in which young women perform and negotiate the polyvalent discourses of what it means to be a woman in China. When many students in U.S. college classrooms are asked to offer images of Chinese women, the most frequent (and in some instances pernicious) representations a…
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty YearsTheorizing Diasporic Chinese Female Subjectivities in Geling Yan’s The Lost Daughter of Happiness Sally E. McWilliams (bio) Diasporic Chinese women's literature presents a recurring struggle to integrate the complexities of national and transnational pasts with contemporary manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual politics and histories. Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness problematizes t…
From a Distance of One Hundred and Twenty Years
Diasporic Chinese women's literature presents a recurring struggle to integrate the complexities of national and transnational pasts with contemporary manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual politics and histories. Geling Yan's The Lost Daughter of Happiness problematizes the narrative conventions used to depict diasporic Chinese female subjects (2001). x Her examination of female subjectivity interrogates how diasporic Chinese women's narra…
People Don't Attack You If You Dress Fancy
Twenty-first-century Chinese cities are spaces not only of architectural hybridity displaying the co-temporality of the dynastic past and the postsocialist future but also locales in which young women perform and negotiate the polyvalent discourses of what it means to be a woman in China. When many students in U.S. college classrooms are asked to offer images of Chinese women, the most frequent (and in some instances pernicious) representations a…
Precarious Memories and Affective Relationships in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do is a multilayered feminist interrogation into the power of affective connections and knowledge for second-generation Vietnamese in the United States. I argue that Thi Bui’s illustrated memoir uses techniques of cotemporality, the intertwining of event and insidious trauma, and the performativity of memory through the visual technologies of maps and photographs to destabilize the rhetorics and realities of U.S. exceptionalism …
Illustrated Connections
In The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, Ann Marie Fleming creates an illustrated memoir that highlights the connections between generations of diasporic Chinese subjects. Nominally a memoir about her great-grandfather, Fleming uses the politics of vaudeville and her great-grandfather's career as entry points into an examination of gendered Orientalism, racial exclusion, and nationalism, counterbalanced with depictions of magic, love, family, and cr…
Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works)