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Jodi Kim: Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War |
| Start Date: | 11/13/2009 |
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| Event Time: | 3:00 PM - |
| Title: | Jodi Kim: Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War |
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| Other Location: | UCSD Literature Building, Room 155 (deCerteau) |
| Event Category: | Lectures/Seminars -Art & Humanities |
| Sponsor: | Department of Literature |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| Admission Cost: | Free |
| Contact Name: | nancy Daly |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-4618 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | ndaly@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Professor Kim’s talk, drawn from her forthcoming book, offers a critique of American empire in Asia through a reframing of the Cold War as a geopolitical, cultural, and epistemological project of gendered racial formation and imperialism undergirding U.S. global hegemony. The talk investigates how what is taken to be the bipolar Manichean rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet unionwas triangulated in Asia, and how contemporary Asian American cultural productions critically index and give complex form to this vexed triangulation. Jodi Kim is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. She has published essays in journals such as MELUS, Journal of Asian American Studies, and American Quarterly. Her book, Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2010 in its “Critical American Studies” Series. |
