You can't generalize, Professor, though I know NYU is a good school”
Upstart vs. Legitimate Knowledges in Russell Leong's “Eclipse”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10890247 |
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| Authors | Dominika Ferens (0000-0003-4231-1686, Dominika Ferens teaches American literature at the Institute of English Studies, Wroclaw University, Poland. Her interests include Asian American literature, theories of race, gender, and sexuality, and anti/ethnographic literature. She is the author of Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances (University of Illinois Press, 2002) and Ways of Knowing Small Places: Intersections of American Literature and Ethnography since the 1960s (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego,..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-75 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Amerasia Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7471 • E-ISSN: 2642-0228 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17953/amer.37.1.y78r642726966779 |
| OpenAlex | W2257102675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Russell Leong's short story Eclipse (2000), which stages a comical altercation between anthropology and grassroots knowledge, might serve as a manifesto for Amerasia Journal—a machine for generating interdisciplinary knowledge about Asian Americans, designed to avoid the ideological and methodological pitfalls of cultural anthropology. Under Leong's editorship, Amerasia has encouraged and showcased interdisciplinary research on an Asian America that has been growing more heterogeneous over time. To sound out that heterogeneity, Amerasia has been mixing and matching tools developed in a wide range of fields, including history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, philosophy, art history, literary studies, critical race theory, women's studies, gender, and queer studies, as well as film and media studies. No less importantly, Amerasia has encouraged the production of knowledge from within minority communities through interviews and oral history, breaking with the tradition that privilege
Aesthetics · American studies · Art · Critical theory · Epistemology · Grassroots · Ideology · Literature · Manifesto · Oral history · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Queer · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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