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Double Agency

Tina Chen
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      In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book—impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority—thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as "im-personations"—dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics—through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Tina Chen EAN: 9780804751858 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 549 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Stanford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-08-09 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Relating to Asian American / Pacific Islander American people, Literature: history and criticism

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      Tina Chen is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt Univers
      In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book—impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority—thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as "im-personations"—dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics—through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Tina Chen EAN: 9780804751858 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 549 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Stanford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2005-08-09 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Relating to Asian American / Pacific Islander American people, Literature: history and criticism

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      Tina Chen is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt Univers

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