In Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life Jonathan Lee and Kathleen Nadeau present the rich hybrid and cultural identities that many Asian American communities cultivate through folklore and its many manifestations in the context of daily life. Featuring contributors who engage theory in practice at the community level from a bottom-up and hands-on perspective, this collection reveals how folklore emerges out of life itself-ever bridging the past and present, the seen and the unseen, changing even as it is "being" appropriated, reinvented, and transformed.…mehr
In Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life Jonathan Lee and Kathleen Nadeau present the rich hybrid and cultural identities that many Asian American communities cultivate through folklore and its many manifestations in the context of daily life. Featuring contributors who engage theory in practice at the community level from a bottom-up and hands-on perspective, this collection reveals how folklore emerges out of life itself-ever bridging the past and present, the seen and the unseen, changing even as it is "being" appropriated, reinvented, and transformed.
Jonathan H. X. Lee is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University. He is the editor of Cambodian American Experiences: Histories, Communities, Cultures, and Identities and co-editor with Kathleen M. Nadeau of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife. Kathleen Nadeau is a professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the author of Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution, The History of the Philippines, and co-editor with Jonathan H. X. Lee of the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Disciplines and Discourses in Asian American Folklore and Folklife: Prospects, Patterns, Practices, and Problems in an Emerging Landscape Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau 1: Folklore and Asian American Humor: Stereotypes, Politics, and Self Ayako Yoshimura 2: Folklore and the Visual Culture of Burmese America: Immigrant Buddhism and the Dhammananda Monastery Winston Kyan 3: The "Movement" as Folklore: Asian American College Youth and Vernacular Expressions of Asian Pacific American Heritage Dawn Lee Tu 4: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America: Literary Folktales in American Picture Books Lorraine Dong 5: Things Matter: Chinese American Culture Work and the Gods of Marysville Jonathan H. X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray 6: Finding the Missing Pieces: Korean American Adoptees and the Production of Ritual SooJin Pate 7: Filipino Folklore, Space, and Performance Francis Tanglao-Aguas 8: Forging Transnational Folklore: Cambodian American Hip Hop Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 9: Japanese American Artistic Appropriation of Folkloric Symbols through Origami and Hip Hop Brett Esaki 10: Igorot American Folk Dance: Performance, Identity, and the Paradox of Decolonization Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H. X. Lee 11: Guangong: The Chinese God of War and Literature in America - From Celestial Stranger to Common Culture (1850-2012 C.E.) Jonathan H. X. Lee 12: Folklore as a Sacred Heritage: Vietnamese Indigenous Religions in California Janet Hoskins 13: Of Flying Brooms and Sorcerers: Spell-castings, Love Potions, and Supernatural Plants Rossina Zamora Liu 14: Korean Folklore in the Lives of Korean American Christian Women Christine J. Hong 15: Late life, Mortuary and Memorial Rituals in Japanese American Community Ronald Y. Nakasone Index About the Editors About the Authors
Acknowledgments Introduction: Disciplines and Discourses in Asian American Folklore and Folklife: Prospects, Patterns, Practices, and Problems in an Emerging Landscape Jonathan H. X. Lee and Kathleen Nadeau 1: Folklore and Asian American Humor: Stereotypes, Politics, and Self Ayako Yoshimura 2: Folklore and the Visual Culture of Burmese America: Immigrant Buddhism and the Dhammananda Monastery Winston Kyan 3: The "Movement" as Folklore: Asian American College Youth and Vernacular Expressions of Asian Pacific American Heritage Dawn Lee Tu 4: Once Upon a Time in Chinese America: Literary Folktales in American Picture Books Lorraine Dong 5: Things Matter: Chinese American Culture Work and the Gods of Marysville Jonathan H. X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray 6: Finding the Missing Pieces: Korean American Adoptees and the Production of Ritual SooJin Pate 7: Filipino Folklore, Space, and Performance Francis Tanglao-Aguas 8: Forging Transnational Folklore: Cambodian American Hip Hop Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 9: Japanese American Artistic Appropriation of Folkloric Symbols through Origami and Hip Hop Brett Esaki 10: Igorot American Folk Dance: Performance, Identity, and the Paradox of Decolonization Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H. X. Lee 11: Guangong: The Chinese God of War and Literature in America - From Celestial Stranger to Common Culture (1850-2012 C.E.) Jonathan H. X. Lee 12: Folklore as a Sacred Heritage: Vietnamese Indigenous Religions in California Janet Hoskins 13: Of Flying Brooms and Sorcerers: Spell-castings, Love Potions, and Supernatural Plants Rossina Zamora Liu 14: Korean Folklore in the Lives of Korean American Christian Women Christine J. Hong 15: Late life, Mortuary and Memorial Rituals in Japanese American Community Ronald Y. Nakasone Index About the Editors About the Authors
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