Laughter Against the state: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire, and Asian American Short Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-73
Author(s):  
Nerissa S. Balce
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
The State

The State of Asian American Businesses

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Diem Tran ◽  
OiYan Poon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The State ◽  
Business Success ◽  
American Business ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
Potential Factors ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Business success is a dominant theme in the Asian American narrative. However, Asian American entrepreneurship is more complex and multilayered than commonly believed and requires careful scrutiny. This brief examines the state of Asian American business ownership between 2005 and 2007. Findings suggest that although Asian Americans form businesses at higher rates than other racial/ethnic minorities, Asian American business ownership and outcomes continue to trail those of non-Hispanic whites. Potential factors contributing to racial/ethnic gaps and policy recommendations are discussed.

The Hogarth Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-261
Author(s):  
Alice Staveley
Keyword(s):  
Short Fiction ◽  
The State ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hogarth Press ◽  
Creative Production ◽  
State Of The Field ◽  
Feminist Materialism

‘Yet I’m the only woman in England free to write what I like. The others must be thinking of series’ & editors.’ Woolf’s 1925 homage to the impact of the Hogarth Press on her career is well known, signifying a new sense of herself as a woman writer in command of the means of creative production. Less well known is how pervasive were her private and public negotiations with the narratological implications of the feminist materialism she cultivated as a printer and publisher. This article reviews the state of the field, re-reads her early short fiction in the context of her typesetting experiments, which resonate with the conflicted history of women in the printing trades, and argues for a revisionist understanding of Woolf’s feminist modernism as isomorphic with the Hogarth Press.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Brian Masaru Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family History ◽  
Asian American ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Agent ◽  
Double Agent

Each of the three Asian American suspects were considered and then dismissed as the Trojan Horse within the OSS. The suspicion that the double agent was someone with a short family history in the United States was proven incorrect. Instead, the foreign agent inside the OSS was one whose family heritage traced back to the American Revolutionary War and whose ancestor signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet blame for the intelligence leakage to a foreign power ultimately rests on the FBI, the State Department, and the director of the OSS itself for their inadequacies in securing classified documents and ineptitude at counterintelligence.

Revisiting Asian American Poetics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Chang
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Asian American Poetry ◽  
Literary Allusion ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Canonical Narratives

The most discussed and cited works of Asian American writing in literary studies include mainly novels, memoirs, short fiction, essays, and plays. To use Sau-ling Wong’s terms Necessity and Extravagance, the study of prose narrative has become a Necessity in the establishment of an Asian American literary canon, while poetry appears to occupy the status of the Extravagant—not excluded, but not as important or basic as prose. However, considering Asian American studies through the framework of not just poetry as a genre but also the poetic as a mode leads to some fresh understandings of canonical narratives, as well as criticism and theory. The power of poetry and the poetic do lie in their alignment with Extravagance, especially in their play with rules and expectations of language, convention, and form. Poems by Asian American writers point to the underside of play, the ways in which play can threaten minority subjects. At the same time the poems enact their own forms of play, through literary allusion and figurative language, for example. Asian American poetry and the Asian American poetic harness the energies of recreation and enjoyment to build and repurpose literary and discursive forms that articulate racial, ethnic, and gendered perils and promises.

scholarly journals Re-introduction of dengue virus serotype 2 in the state of Rio de Janeiro after almost a decade of epidemiological silence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torres María Celeste ◽  
Fernanda de Bruycker Nogueira ◽  
Fernandes Carlos Augusto ◽  
Louzada Silva Meira Guilherme ◽  
Ferreira de Aguiar Shirlei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Dengue Virus ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
Viral Strain ◽  
Virus Serotype ◽  
Viral Lineage ◽  
Dengue Virus Serotype 2 ◽  
Dengue Epidemics

AbstractThe Asian/American genotype of dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) has been introduced in Brazil through the state of Rio de Janeiro around 1990, and since then it has been spreading and evolving, leading to several waves of dengue epidemics throughout the country that cause a major public health problem. Of particular interest has been the epidemic of 2008, whose highest impact was evidenced in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with a higher number of severe cases and mortality rate, compared to previous outbreaks. Interestingly, no circulation of DENV-2 was witnessed in this region during the preceding 9-year period. By early 2010, phylogenetic analysis of the 2008 epidemic strain revealed that the outbreak was caused by a new viral lineage of the Asian/American genotype, which was pointed as responsible for the outbreak severity as well. The same scenario is repeating in 2019 in this state; however, only a few cases have been detected yet. To provide information that helps to the understanding of DENV-2 dynamics in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and thereafter contribute to public health control and prevention actions, we employed phylogenetic studies combined with temporal and dynamics geographical features to determine the origin of the current viral strain. To this effect, we analyzed a region of 1626 nucleotides entailing the Envelope/NS1 viral genes. Our study reveals that the current strain belongs to the same lineage that caused the 2008 outbreak, however, it is phylogenetically distant from any Brazilian strain identified so far. Indeed, it seemed to be originated in Puerto Rico around 2002 and has been introduced into the state in late 2018. Taking into account that no DENV-2 case was reported over the last decade in the state (representing a whole susceptible children generation), and the fact that a new viral strain may be causing current dengue infections, these results will be influential in strengthening dengue surveillance and disease control, mitigating the potential epidemiological consequences of virus spread.Author SummaryBy the time dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) was introduced into Brazil through the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1990, the first dengue hemorrhagic cases started to evidence as well. Years of seasonal outbreaks were followed by almost ten years oy epidemiological silence in the state. However, in 2007 this serotype was re-introduced into the state causing one of the worst dengue epidemics ever described in the country. The same viral genotype was involved, however, a different viral lineage was detected and pointed as responsible for the outbreak severity. This same scenario could repeat nowadays in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Since new DENV-2 cases are being detected in this region, we analyzed the identity and origin of the viral strain obtained from two infected patients. Phylogeny combined with temporal and geographical analyses of viral sequences demonstrated that the strain causing 2019’s dengue cases belonged to the same lineage as the one causing the outbreak in 2008, but to a different subgroup, and might have originated in Puerto Rico and entered the state in recent times. These results may represent a crucial starting point for strengthening Brazilian surveillance systems and disease control, helping to reduce the impact of a potential epidemic of great magnitude.

Fighting “Gooks”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Man
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Experience

This chapter examines the social experiences of Asian Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Their collective experience of being racialized as “gooks,” alongside the burgeoning movements for Third World liberation in the United States, drove many Asian American veterans to understand the violence of the war as an intrinsic part of the state-sanctioned violence faced by Asian American and other racialized communities in the United States. Asian American veterans came home from the war and became active participants in the Asian American movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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