Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism
Animating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469036 |
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| Authors | Xine Yao (0000-0002-5207-2618, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 471-504 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2021.0036 |
| OpenAlex | W3214139216 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and Asian diasporic settler colonialism in tandem with comparative Indigeneities and decolonial solidarity. ATLA engages Asianness and Indigeneity together in a mode that is relational but not statically schematic, extending influential work by scholars thinking across Indigenous, Asian, and Asian diasporic studies
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| Highly cited | No |
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