Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms

This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nancy Hom, Betty Kano, Flo Oy Wong, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Theresa H.K. Cha, and Hung Liu are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of their time, and their art is examined in light of the question of what it means to be an Asian American artist. Laura Fantone's exploration of this dynamic, understudied artistic community begets a sensitive and timely reflection on the state of Asian American women in the USA and in Californian cultural institutions.

Auteur
Laura Fantone is Lecturer of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her commitment to interdisciplinarity has led her to write on video games, reproductive technologies, labor and precarity, and ethnic minorities and refugees in Europe; to produce two documentaries distributed in Italy and in the USA; and to curate two art shows.

Contenu

1. Introduction: Visuality, Gender, and Asian America2. Asian American Art for the People3. Traces and Visions of In-Betweens4. AAWAA: Visibility, Pan-Asian Identity, and the Limits of Community5. Red and Gold Washing6. Opacities: Local Venues, Cosmopolitan Imaginaries