Theorizing Asian America

THIS ARTICLE IS A FEMINIST COMPARATIVE THEORETICAL STUDY between Asian American/Asian diasporic cultural criticism and postcolonial theory on the missions, roles, functions and constituencies of women intellectuals. It compares and connects the texts and thoughts of selected contemporary women intellectuals, such as Elaine Kim, Lisa Lowe, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sau-ling Wong, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Rey Chow and Trinh T. Minh-ha, in the fields of Asian American Studies and postcolonial studies. They have inaugurated, defined, shaped and re-directed the intellectual history of Asian America, the interdisciplinary history of Asian American Studies, and the feminist history [End Page 139] of theorizing Asian American women and Asian American women theorizing

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• On Becoming Socially Articulate

  Martin Joseph Ponce•Journal of Asian American Studies•2005

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• Moving racial discussion forward

  Keonghee Tao Han•Journal of Diversity in Higher…•2014

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• Re-tracing the Haole female teacher–traveler in Hawaii

  Sarah Twomey, Sarah J Twomey•Race Ethnicity and Education•2012

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• Plotting Colonial Independence

  Open Access•William Nessly•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•2018

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• Retracted Article

  Open Access•Keonghee Tao Han, Jacqueline Leonard•The Urban Review•2017

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• Asian female international scholar experiences in kinesiology

  Mijoo Kim, Yilin Li et al.•Sport Education and Society•2025

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• Korean American feminist solidarity and the culinary politics of memory

  Seon-Myung Yoo•Interventions•2025

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• Reading the literatures of Asian America

  Amy Ling•Reading the literatures of Asian…•1992

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• Outside in the Teaching Machine

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak•Outside in the Teaching Machine•2015

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• Woman, native, other

  T Minh-Ha Trinh•Woman, native, other•1989

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• The Nature and context of minority discourse

  Abdul R Janmohamed, David Lloyd•The Nature and context of…•1990

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• Asian American literature, an introduction to the writings and their social context

  Elaine H Kim•Asian American literature, an…•1982

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• Black Skin, White Masks

  Frantz Fanon•Social Theory Re-Wired•2023

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• Cultures of United States imperialism

  Amy Kaplan, Donald E Pease•Cultures of United States…•1993

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• Justice, nature, and the geography of difference

  David Harvey•Justice, nature, and the…•1996

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• Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

  Chandra Mohanty, Chandra Talpade Mohanty et al.•Third World women and the…•1991

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• Out Here and Over There

  David L Eng•A Companion to Asian American…•2005

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• Theses on the Philosophy of History

  Walter Benjamin•Critical Theory and Society•2020

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• And the View from the Shore

  Edgar C Knowlton, Edgar C Knowlton Edgar C Knowlton et al.•World Literature Today•1992

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• America Is in the Heart

  Carlos Bulosan, Marilyn C Alquizola et al.•America Is in the Heart•2014

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• Orientations

  Open Access•Dorinne Kondo, Kandice Chuh et al.•Orientations•2001

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• The Americas of Asian American Literature

  Open Access•Rachel C Lee•Americas of Asian American…•1999

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• Race, nation, classe

  Étienne Balibar, Immanuel Wallerstein•Race, nation, classe•2007

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• The Futures of American Studies

  Open Access•Robyn Wiegman, Donald E Pease•Futures of American Studies•2002

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• Racism and Cultural Studies

  E San Juan, E San Juan Jr et al.•Racism and Cultural Studies•2020

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• Immigrant Acts

  Lisa Lowe•Immigrant Acts•1996

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• The Wretched of the Earth

  Open Access•Frantz Fanon•Posthumanism•2000

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• Reading Asian American Literature

  Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong•Reading Asian American Literature•1993

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• The Oxford English Dictionary and Its Philosophy

  Open Access•John Simpson, J Arol Simpson•Philosophy & Technology•2013

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• The Order of Things

  Michel Foucault•The order of things•2005

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• The Fiction of Asian American Literature

  Susan Koshy•Yale journal of criticism/ The…•1996

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• Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies

  John Carlos Rowe•Cultural Critique•1998

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• Denationalization Reconsidered

  Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong•Amerasia Journal•1995

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• Common Ground

  Louise Michele Newman, Gary Y Okihiro•Journal of American History•2002

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• An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature

  Greta Ai-Yu Niu, Greta Niu et al.•American Literature•1998

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• In other worlds

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak•In other worlds•2006

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• Feminist and Ethnic Literary Theories in Asian American Literature

  Shirley Geok‐lin Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim•Feminist Studies•1993

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• Woman, Native, Other

  Open Access•Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T Minh-Ha et al.•Feminist Review•1990

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• Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity

  Lisa Lowe•Diaspora A Journal of Transnational…•1991

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• From a Native Daughter

  Felicia Beardsley, Haunani-Kay Trask•Pacific Affairs•2000

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