Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- 29 The 9/11 of Our Imaginations: Islam, the Figure of the Muslim, and the Failed Liberalism of the Racial Present
- 30 Narrating War: Arab and Muslim American Aesthetics
- 31 Thick Time and Space: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Aesthetics
- 32 Asian American New Media as Literature for the Digital Age
- 33 Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh
- Bibliography
- Index
32 - Asian American New Media as Literature for the Digital Age
from Part VI - Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- 29 The 9/11 of Our Imaginations: Islam, the Figure of the Muslim, and the Failed Liberalism of the Racial Present
- 30 Narrating War: Arab and Muslim American Aesthetics
- 31 Thick Time and Space: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Aesthetics
- 32 Asian American New Media as Literature for the Digital Age
- 33 Beyond National Literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides an overview of a range of Asian American new media literary forms and practices composing contemporary Asian American online life. It considers how Asian American blogs and e-mail campaigns engage Asian Americans into offline activism. Asian American online life as expressed through Twitter and Wikipedia suggest how digital technologies are platforms of racial meaning. Asian American digital life can be seen as a born-digital literature with offline effects. New media liberates Asian Americans from the stranglehold of traditional platforms of expression, and this liberation can continue to engender startling forms of creativity, critique, and controversy. Asian American writing during the digital age illustrates the complex intersection between race and technology. Asian American literature in the digital age finds form in technology, content in activism, and application in concerns that investigate the politics of race as a digital formation.
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- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature , pp. 551 - 566Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015