Legal Fictions of Citizenship and Family in Asian American Literature
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Table of contents 1. Me love you long time: Legal fictions of citizenship and family in Asian American literature 2. Enigmatic bachelors: Masculinity, girlhood, and vision in the art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger 3. Native sustainment: The North Fork Mono tribe's stories, history, and teaching of its land and water tenure in 1918 and 2009 4. Performing chance: Alison Knowles, Fluxus, and the enigmatic work of art 5. Vietnam War drama 1966-2008: American theatrical responses to the war and its aftermath 6. Women, film and racial thinking: Exploring the representation and reception of interracial romance 7. Unstable ground: Photography books and the modern landscape, 1938-- 1975 8. The effects of American fundamentalism on educating towards a virtuous citizenry: The case of C.I. Scofield and Philadelphia Biblical University 9. Authentic performances: The paradox of Black identity 10. We must grow our own artists: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, northern Arizona's early art educator and advocate 11. Media representations and implications for collective memory: A grounded theory analysis of TV news broadcasts of Hillary Clinton from 1993--2008 12. Landscape urbanism: Building as process and the practice of indeterminism 13. Lucy Diggs Slowe, Howard University Dean of Women, 1922-1937: Educator administrator, activist 14. Poetry and the press in a time of war (1936--1945) 15. Caution children crossing: Home, integration narratives, and the Gentle Warrior, 1950--1965 16. An explanatory history of gifted education: 1940--1960 17. Unraveling conflicting interpretations: A reexamination of the 1916 Report on Social Studies 18. Material sites of modernism 19. Networked subjects: Technologies of interiority in Henry James, Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon 20. Written in water: The rhetorical protests of the Owens Valley Water wars 21. An historical analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Desegregation Consent Decree (1980--2006): Establishing its relationship with the Brown v. Board case of 1954 and the implications of its implementation on educational leadership 22. Turmoil, tirades and transformation: The wars for the National History Standards 1991-2004 23. The Hochstein School of Music & Dance: History, mission, and vision 24. Managing vision, envisioning management: Representations of labor and technological systems in Gilded Age America 25. Teaching American history: The influence of professional development on elementary teacher's self-efficacy and classroom practice 26. The queer frontier: Placing the sexual imaginary in California, 1868- 1915 27. Constructing the American activist: Twentieth century political performances and discourses of social change 28. The music of Herbie Hancock: Composition and improvisation in the Blue Note years 29. Comparison of Annie Sullivan's teaching strategies for literacy and communication to the current outcome performance indicators in deaf- blindness: An exploratory mixed-methods study 30. Labor takes the stage: A musical and social analysis of "Pins and Needles" (1937-1941) 31. The Civilian Conservation Corps as educational technology, 1933--1942 32. Reading maps, writing landscapes: Cartographic illustration in Arizona, 1912-1962 33. Vaudeville and the American experience of the First World War as seen by Variety 34. The Iron Curtain in the picture window: The Cold War home in American fiction and popular culture 35. Private knowledge, public tensions: Theory commitment in postwar American linguistics 36. Ballet's feminisms: Genealogy and gender in twentieth-century American ballet history 37. Traveling spectators: Cinema, geography, and multiculturalism in late twentieth-century America 38. From protest to praxis: A history of Islamic schools in North America 39. Manners of speaking: Linguistic capital and the rhetoric of correctness in late-nineteenth-century America 40. Roxy and His Gang: Silent film exhibition and the birth of media convergence 41. Thinking at the limit: The origins and effects of modern revolutionary thought in Britain and the U.S 42. Halting narratives: Late modernism, history, and crisis in Jorge Luis Borges, Graciliano Ramos, and William Faulkner 43. The Chicago Board of Education desegregation policies and practices [1975--1985]: A historical examination of the administrations of superintendents Dr. Joseph P. Hannon and Dr. Ruth Love 44. Double lives: Exile composers in Los Angeles 45. Insuring the city: The Prudential Center and the reshaping of Boston 46. Negotiating life on the urban periphery: The development of the industrial suburb of East Chicago, Indiana, 1850-1950 47. Traversing boundaries: Retrospectives on gendered racism in the lives of African-American schoolgirls in the 80s 48. A legacy of lifelong learning: Leadership, lessons, love, and laughter in the life of Elizabeth Gammon Pendleton ____________________________________________________________ Document 1 of 48 Me love you long time: Legal fictions of citizenship and family in Asian American literature Author: Chang, Stewart Li-Wen Publication info: University of California, Irvine, 2010. 3404367. http://search.proquest.com/docview/506870703?accountid=14709 Abstract: I argue that late twentieth-century developments in American immigration, family, and Constitutional law have driven Asian American identity formation, as expressed in literature, through legal idealizations of citizenship and family. I draw from the tradition of "legal fictions," as explored by legal theorists J.C. Gray, Owen Barfield, and Lon Fuller, to suggest how those legal idealizations contain fictive and imagined elements that literary analysis can illuminate and challenge. Focusing on family reunification provisions in immigration law, I dissect good faith marriage and qualifying family relationships as the central legal fictions by which Asian American immigrants have entered the United States and are subsequently constructed. The history of Asian Americans, as expressed in narrative literature referencing their initial exclusion as sexual deviants and their eventual inclusion as a sexual model minority, demonstrates how fictions of legitimate family relationships had simultaneously evolved in Constitutional law around the issues of privacy and reproductive choice, and have recently been challenged in family law through nontraditional family structures caused by divorce and advances in medical technology. Links: null Subject: Asian American Studies; Law; American literature Classification: 0343: Asian American Studies, 0398: Law, 0591: American literature Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Language, literature and linguistics, Law and literature, Asian-American literature, Asian- American studies, Constitutional law, Family law, Immigration law Title: Me love you long time: Legal fictions of citizenship and family in Asian American literature Number of pages: 300 Publication year: 2010 Degree date: 2010 School code: 0030 Source: DAI-A 71/06, Dec 2010 ISBN: 9781124012896 Advisor: Thomas, Brook Committee member: Coutin, Susan B., Katrak, Ketu H. University/institution: University of California, Irvine Department: English - Ph.D University location: United States -- California Degree: Ph.D. Source type: Dissertations&Theses Language: English Document type: Dissertation/Thesis Dissertation/thesis number: 3404367 ProQuest document ID: 506870703 Document URL: http://search.proquest.com/docview/506870703?accountid=14709 Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2010 Database: ProQuest Dissertations&Theses (PQDT) ____________________________________________________________ Document 2 of 48 Enigmatic bachelors: Masculinity, girlhood, and vision in the art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger Author: Trent, Mary Shelley Publication info: University of California, Irvine, 2010. 3404213. http://search.proquest.com/docview/499989603?accountid=14709 Abstract: American artists Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger approached the subject of girlhood in collage and assemblage projects made during the 1930s-1960s, a period when images of girls were abundant in the nation's visual culture. While most American modernist artists ignored the subject, Cornell and Darger borrowed from print media to create elaborate worlds filled with references to girls. This dissertation explores how these references allowed the artists to engage dominant cultural representations of gender and social marginality and rework them into alternative visions of modern artistic masculinity. The dissertation makes use of archival research to draw out the significance of these artists' peculiar interest in girlhood. It considers the artists' source materials, the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century domestic craft of scrapbooking, and accounts of missing and abused children. Additionally, it brings together secondary source perspectives from art history, queer theory and gender studies, film and media studies, the history of children and youth, and disability studies. The first two chapters argue that the girlish craft of scrapbooking provided Cornell and Darger with an artistic method for celebrating the imaginative reworking of mass-media in the home. The second two chapters chart how their art incorporates accounts of missing or abused children that engage modern fears for adult male interest in girls and abnormal psychosexual development. These chapters attempt to tease out cultural assumptions and myths behind Cornell and Darger's interest in inhabiting girlish perspectives and, alternatively, in viewers' perceptions that they may be inhabiting