Asian American Cultural Critique at the End of US Empire

Sharpening contradictions in US-China economic interdependency has created a crisis and an opportunity for Asian American cultural critique. A crisis in that it is plainer than ever before that antiracism and anti-imperialism do not necessarily align; an opportunity in that US and China's financial entanglements have fueled a boom in the Asian American novel as a lively genre of the transPacific credit economy. At the very least, this makes for the new social relevance of Asian American novel criticism.

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The sharpening contradictions in US-China economic interdependency have created both a crisis and an opportunity for Asian American cultural critique. This crisis is due to the misalignment of antiracism and anti-imperialism, while the opportunity arises from the booming Asian American novel genre fueled by the financial entanglements between the US and China. This highlights the new social relevance of Asian American novel criticism.