Karen Har-Yen Chow
Biographic Data
| ID | 6649976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Har-Yen Chow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Har-Yen |
| FAMILY NAME | Chow |
| SIGNATURE | CHOW K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Anza College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
National Abjection
National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. Karen Shimakawa. Durham NC: Duke UP, 2002. 192 pages. $69.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Get access National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage.. Karen Shimakawa. Durham NC: Duke UP, 2002. 192 pages. $69.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Karen H. Chow Karen H. Chow 1.De Anza College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 1…
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs: An Anthology of Filipino American Writers. Ed. Helen C. Toribo. San Francisco CA: Tiboli, 2002. 246 pages. $16.95 paper. Get access Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs: An Anthology of Filipino American Writers. Ed. Helen C. Toribo. San Francisco CA: Tiboli, 2002. 246 pages. $16.95 paper. Karen H. Chow Karen H. Chow 1De Anza College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, …
Prose Book Prize Awardee
Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son is a short novel that packs a wallop, like a boxer who strikes hard in the first line and doesn't let up with unexpected punches. As in another memorable Asian American novel that features boxing, Milton Murayama's All I Asking For Is My Body, this is an intense local story from the perspective of a young adolescent protagonist, a perspective that is subtly shaded by a tone of irony, lament, and wistfulness that…
Asian American Transnationalism in John Woo's Bullet in the Head
John Woo's international cult following has largely grown around wellknown action thriller flicks like The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Hardboiled, Broken Arrow, Face/Off and the recently released Mission. Impossible 2. The now-familiar hallmarks of these films are slow-motion cinematography, acrobatic, rapid-fire shootouts (with triangulated cocked guns), and the themes of male bonding and loyalty. With these wellknown features, Woo has proved tha…
Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women's Agency in 1920s England
This article examines popular discourses of women's sexuality in 1920s England and argues that sex manuals like Marie Stopes's Married Life and sex novels like E.M. Hull's The Sheik, despite their adherence to status quo values, were liberating for women through their affirmation of women's sexual subjectivity. Stopes's enormously popular book contributed strongly to a new understanding of women's sexual drives as natural and autonomous. The chan…
Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women's Agency in 1920s England
This article examines popular discourses of women's sexuality in 1920s England and argues that sex manuals like Marie Stopes's Married Life and sex novels like E.M. Hull's The Sheik, despite their adherence to status quo values, were liberating for women through their affirmation of women's sexual subjectivity. Stopes's enormously popular book contributed strongly to a new understanding of women's sexual drives as natural and autonomous. The chan…
Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women's Agency in 1920s England
This article examines popular discourses of women's sexuality in 1920s England and argues that sex manuals like Marie Stopes's Married Life and sex novels like E.M. Hull's The Sheik, despite their adherence to status quo values, were liberating for women through their affirmation of women's sexual subjectivity. Stopes's enormously popular book contributed strongly to a new understanding of women's sexual drives as natural and autonomous. The chan…
Asian American Transnationalism in John Woo's Bullet in the Head
John Woo's international cult following has largely grown around wellknown action thriller flicks like The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Hardboiled, Broken Arrow, Face/Off and the recently released Mission. Impossible 2. The now-familiar hallmarks of these films are slow-motion cinematography, acrobatic, rapid-fire shootouts (with triangulated cocked guns), and the themes of male bonding and loyalty. With these wellknown features, Woo has proved tha…
Prose Book Prize Awardee
Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son is a short novel that packs a wallop, like a boxer who strikes hard in the first line and doesn't let up with unexpected punches. As in another memorable Asian American novel that features boxing, Milton Murayama's All I Asking For Is My Body, this is an intense local story from the perspective of a young adolescent protagonist, a perspective that is subtly shaded by a tone of irony, lament, and wistfulness that…
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs: An Anthology of Filipino American Writers. Ed. Helen C. Toribo. San Francisco CA: Tiboli, 2002. 246 pages. $16.95 paper. Get access Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs: An Anthology of Filipino American Writers. Ed. Helen C. Toribo. San Francisco CA: Tiboli, 2002. 246 pages. $16.95 paper. Karen H. Chow Karen H. Chow 1De Anza College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, …
National Abjection
National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. Karen Shimakawa. Durham NC: Duke UP, 2002. 192 pages. $69.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Get access National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage.. Karen Shimakawa. Durham NC: Duke UP, 2002. 192 pages. $69.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. Karen H. Chow Karen H. Chow 1.De Anza College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 30, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 1…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · European history and politics (1 work)