Asian American identities and practices : folkloric expressions in everyday life /
"Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life probes the intersection, interplay, and interconnection of Asian and Asian American folklore and folklife in globally fluid and culturally creative landscapes among Asian American communities and subjects. Asian Am...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Folklore and Asian American humor : stereotypes, politics, and self / Ayako Yoshimura
- Folklore and the visual culture of Burmese America : domestic Buddhist practices and the Dhammananda Monastery / Winston Kyan
- The "movement" as folklore : Asian American college youth and vernacular expressions of Asian Pacific American heritage / Dawn Lee Tu
- Once upon a time in Chinese America : literary folktales in American picture books / Lorraine Dong
- Things matter : Chinese American culture work and the gods of Marysville / Jonathan H.X. Lee and Vivian-Lee Nyitray
- Finding the missing pieces : Korean American adoptees and the production of ritual / Soojin Pate
- Filipino folklore, space, and performance / Francis Tanglao-Aguas
- Forging transnational folklore : Cambodian American hip hop / Cathy L. Schlund-Vials
- Japanese American appropriation of folkloric symbols through origami and hip hop / Brett Esaki
- Igorot American folk dance : performance, identity, and the paradox of decolonization / Mark Sabas Leo and Jonathan H.X. Lee
- Guangong : the Chinese god of war and literature in America : from celestial stranger to common culture (1850-2011 CE) / Jonathan H.X. Lee
- Folklore as a sacred heritage : Vietnamese indigenous religions in California / Janet Hoskins
- Of flying brooms and sorcerers : spell-castings, love potions, and supernatural plants / Rossina Zamora Liu
- Korean folklore in the lives of Korean American Christian women / Christine Hong
- Late-life, mortuary, and memorial rituals in the Japanese American community / Ronald Y. Nakasone.
