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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yao, Xine

Titel

Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism: Animating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Asian American studies, 2021-10, Vol.24 (3), p.471-504

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and Asian diasporic settler colonialism in tandem with comparative Indigeneities and decolonial solidarity. ATLA engages Asianness and Indigeneity together in a mode that is relational but not statically schematic, extending influential work by scholars thinking across Indigenous, Asian, and Asian diasporic studies.