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Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.
Rachel C. Lee is Associate Professor of Women's Studies, English, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Americas of Asian American Literature. Sua-ling Cynthia Wong is Professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Reading Asian American Literature.
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Orienting Orientalism, or How to Map Cyberspace | 3 |
| 2 | Cyber-Race | 37 |
| 3 | Virtually Vietnamese: Nationalism on the Internet | 71 |
| 4 | North American Hindus, the Sense of History, and the Politics of Internet Diasporism | 98 |
| 5 | Reimagining the Community: Information Technology and Web-based Chinese Language Networks in North America | 139 |
| 6 | Laughter in the Rain: Jokes as Membership and Resistance | 158 |
| 7 | The Geography of Cyberliterature in Korea | 177 |
| 8 | Intercollegiate Web Pedagogy: Possibilities and Limitations of Virtual Asian American Studies | 193 |
| 9 | Filipina.com: Wives, Workers, and Whores on the Cyberfrontier | 215 |
| 10 | Will the Real Indian Woman Log-On? Diaspora, Gender, and Comportment | 235 |
| 11 | The Revenge of the Yellowfaced Cyborg Terminator: The Rape of Digital Geishas and the Colonization of Cyber-Coolies in 3D Realms' Shadow Warrior | 249 |
| 12 | Good Politics, Great Porn: Untangling Race, Sex, and Technology in Asian American Cultural Productions | 267 |
| 13 | Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality, and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space | 281 |
| Notes on Contributors | 307 | |
| Index | 311 |
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