Local Invisibility, Postcolonial Feminisms Asian American Contemporary Artists in California /

• Main Author: Fantone, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
• Subjects: Sociology.; Arts.; Ethnology-Asia.; Culture.; United States-Study and teaching.; Ethnology.; Gender Studies.; Asian Culture.; Sociology of Culture.; American Culture.; Cultural Anthropology.
• Physical Description: XIII, 247 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137506702
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50670-2

This book offers gendered, postcolonial insights into the poetic and artistic work of four generations of female Asian American artists in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Nancy Hom, Betty Kano, Flo Oy Wong, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Theresa H.K. Cha, and Hung Liu are discussed in relation to the cultural politics of their time, and their art is examined in light of the question of what it means to be an Asian American artist. Laura Fantone's exploration of this dynamic, understudied artistic community begets a sensitive and timely reflection on the state of Asian American women in the USA and in Californian cultural institutions.