CULTURAL STUDIES / CYBERCULTURE / ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Asian America.Net examines how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by interfaces with information technology. From "model minority" stereotypes in the software industry to the "techno-orientalism" of computer games, technology is embedded in contemporary discourses of race and ethnicity. Bringing together innovative scholarship across many disciplines, this volume draws out the narratives of racial and sexual difference, Orientalism, global power, and Asian nationality that lie behind the "consensual hallucination" known as cyberspace.

The thirteen essays gathered here critically examine the discourses surrounding Asian Americans and cyberspace in mainstream media including literature and film, in alternative currents such as chat rooms and comic books, and in the workplaces of computer hardware and software industries. The contributors both document and interrogate a significant shift in the way Asians and Asian Americans are being contradictorily imagined as both machine-like laborers and elite cyber-savvy competitors. Attuned to the way in which gender and sexuality mediate cyberpractices, Asian America.Net further explores the way in which "Oriental women" have become hallucinatory figures to manage as well as articulate the perils and pleasures of the human-electronic interface.

Drawing upon cutting-edge scholarship from the fields of law, anthropology, sociology, history, literature, performance studies, visual culture, and media studies, Asian America.Net illuminates the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.

CONTRIBUTORS:

• John Cheng
• Karen Har-Yen Chow
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
• Vernadette Gonzalez
• Emily Noelle Ignacio
• Jerry Kang
• Aeju Kim
• Vinay Lal
• Kim-An Lieberman
• Mimi Nguyen
• Jeffrey A. Ow
• Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
• Yuan Shu
• Pamela Thoma
• Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
• Linta Varghese

Rachel C. Lee is Associate Professor of Women's Studies, English, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation.

Sau-ling Cynthia Wong is Professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagence, editor of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Casebook, and coeditor of A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature.

Cover Design: Pearl Chang

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