Asian American Identities and Practices

Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life

Jonathan H. X. Lee, Kathleen Nadeau (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4733-7 (ISBN)

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Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life probes the intersection, interplay, and interconnection of Asian and Asian American folklore and folklife in globally fluid and culturally creative landscapes among Asian American communities and subjects. Asian American folklore, as a way of life and practice, has emerged and continues to emerge as Asian Americans lay claim and take root in the American mosaic. As such, the contributors in this volume all show how the Asian American historical experiences and continued international migration inform the production of new folkloric practices, subjectivities, and ideologies, which in turn strengthen specific Asian American ways of life while normalizing folklore that are squarely produced in Asian America. This collection illustrates that Asian American folklore and folklife is interwoven with social relationships, the creation of various types of ethnic, cultural, and national identities, and adaptive strategies within the particular historical periods, communities, and shifting boundaries and demographics of Asian America. The global context of Asian American folklore and folklife, especially in the racially charged post-9/11 context, bespeaks how Asians, past and present, maneuver the cultural spaces of their host society and old traditions to create new sites and new opportunities for cultural folkloric production and expression in everyday life.

Jonathan H. X. Lee is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. He is the editor of Cambodian American Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures, and Identities and co-editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. Kathleen Nadeau is a professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution, The History of the Philippines, and co-editor with Jonathan H. X. Lee of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Disciplines and Discourses in Asian American Folklore and Folklife: Prospects, Patterns, Practices, and Problems in an Emerging Landscape
Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau

1: Folklore and Asian American Humor: Stereotypes, Politics, and Self
Ayako Yoshimura

2: Folklore and the Visual Culture of Burmese America: Immigrant Buddhism and the Dhammananda Monastery
Winston Kyan

3: The “Movement” as Folklore: Asian American College Youth and Vernacular Expressions of Asian Pacific American Heritage
Dawn Lee Tu

4: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America: Literary Folktales in American Picture Books
Lorraine Dong

5: Things Matter: Chinese American Culture Work and the Gods of Marysville
Jonathan H. X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray

6: Finding the Missing Pieces: Korean American Adoptees and the Production of Ritual
SooJin Pate

7: Filipino Folklore, Space, and Performance
Francis Tanglao-Aguas

8: Forging Transnational Folklore: Cambodian American Hip Hop
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

9: Japanese American Artistic Appropriation of Folkloric Symbols through Origami and Hip Hop
Brett Esaki

10: Igorot American Folk Dance: Performance, Identity, and the Paradox of Decolonization
Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H. X. Lee

11: Guangong: The Chinese God of War and Literature in America – From Celestial Stranger to Common Culture (1850-2012 C.E.)
Jonathan H. X. Lee

12: Folklore as a Sacred Heritage: Vietnamese Indigenous Religions in California
Janet Hoskins

13: Of Flying Brooms and Sorcerers: Spell-castings, Love Potions, and Supernatural Plants
Rossina Zamora Liu

14: Korean Folklore in the Lives of Korean American Christian Women
Christine J. Hong

15: Late life, Mortuary and Memorial Rituals in Japanese American Community
Ronald Y. Nakasone

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Erscheinungsdatum	10.12.2015
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 231 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-4733-1 / 0739147331
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-4733-7 / 9780739147337
Zustand	Neuware