{"product_id":"double-agency-acts-of-impersonation-in-asian-american-literature-and-culture-9780804751865","title":"Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDouble Agency\u003c\/i\u003e, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book--impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority--thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty\/disloyalty, real\/fake, and Asian\/American, \u003ci\u003eDouble Agency\u003c\/i\u003e attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as \"im-personations\"--dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics--through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tina Chen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/09\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Asian America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.08w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804751865","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43914188488841,"sku":"9780804751865","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dec357dc-2216-43d6-aa09-8b15dec4d28e.jpg?v=1745301333","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/double-agency-acts-of-impersonation-in-asian-american-literature-and-culture-9780804751865","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}