The Beautiful Generation – Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
Autor Thuy Linh Nguye Tuen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 2010
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822349136
ISBN-10: 0822349132
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 24 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822349132
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 24 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 162 x 241 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Cuprins
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Fashion, Free Trade, and the "Rise of the Asian Designer" 1 Part I 1. Crossing the Assembly Line: Skills, Knowledge, and the Borders of Fashion 31 2. All in the Family? Kin, Gifts, and the Networks of Fashion 63 Part II 3. The Cultural Economy of Asian Chic 99 4. "Material Mao": Fashioning Histories Out of Icons 133 5. Asia on My Mind: Transnational Intimacies and Cultural Genealogies 169 Epilogue 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 239 Index 253
Recenzii
Exciting and original, The Beautiful Generation exemplifies the best work in the field of cultural studies. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu reveals the material and ideological struggles behind the constructions of Asianness incorporated into the design, production, and marketing of fashion. She describes how the U.S. fashion industry has been built around racialized, gendered, and sexualized streams of migrants, as well as the complex transnational flows of capital, and she brilliantly argues that it is the architecture and aesthetics of intimacy, the fictive and biological kin relations between designers and garment workers, that fuels Asian American fashion design.Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaThe Beautiful Generation is a pleasure to read and a model of how cultural studies ought to be done. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tus elegant, well-crafted account of the fashion industry demonstrates the impossibility of separating the aesthetic from the material, or the cultural from the economic. It shows how the changing roles of culture in the global economy can be luminously traced through a focused, interdisciplinary methodology.Kandice Chuh, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
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""The Beautiful Generation" is a pleasure to read and a model of how cultural studies ought to be done. Thuy Linh Tu's elegant, well-crafted account of the fashion industry demonstrates the impossibility of separating the aesthetic from the material, or the cultural from the economic. It shows how the changing roles of culture in the global economy can be luminously traced through a focused, interdisciplinary methodology."--Kandice Chuh, author of "Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique"
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This ethnography of Asian American designers in New Yorks fashion industry explores their relations to the garment workers who produce their goods and to Asianness as a fashionable commodity