“Are you losing your culture?”: Poetics, indexicality and Asian American identity

Discourse Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-199

  Reyes, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; discourse analysis; ethnicity; identity; identity politics; indexicality; K E YWORDS: Asian American; multiculturalism; performance; poetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734208     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614456020040020401     Document Type: Article

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