Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Clark, Audrey Wu

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this...
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Author: Audrey Wu Clark
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War by Clark, Audrey Wu

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

$111.66

Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War

$111.66
Author: Audrey Wu Clark
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry, even as that masculinity socially and politically alienates him. She examines gendered and racialized US militarism through works written during major postmodern American wars, investigating how books by John Okada, David Henry Hwang, Chang-rae Lee, Frances Khirallah Noble, and Viet Thanh Nguyen (re)fashion Asian American masculinity in ways that ultimately mimic masculinist American foreign policy and military strategies during corresponding wars. She unearths a dual picture of Asian American players: as traces of the anxiety of America's quest for empowerment and continued military and industrial dominance in the international arena and as those tarred as inferior and disloyal outsiders within this mirrored global dominance. She thus finds new inroads into understanding US imperialism and militarism and identifies ways that key literary figures have written against insidious tropes.

Author: Audrey Wu Clark
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 09/09/2024
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Paperback
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780814258811

About the Author
Audrey Wu Clark is Associate Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy. She is also the author of The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art.

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