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
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
12 - Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
from Part III - The Asian American Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
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
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Asian American participation in the Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State College revealed the nascent Asian American movement's commitment to self-determination for Asian American communities and solidarity with other non-white groups in the United States. It was appropriate that the first large-scale Asian American actions took place at San Francisco State, which had been roiled in student activism throughout the early to middle 1960s. Opposition to the US war in Vietnam contributed greatly to the emergence and growth of the Asian American movement, which was deeply influenced by some segments of the mainstream antiwar movement. The liberation of women also proved to be an important and complex aspect of the Asian American movement's struggle. The social and political movements of the 1960s and 1970s created spaces in which multiethnic Asian American arts, culture and literature arose as a distinct body of works.
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- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature , pp. 221 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015