Books by Eleanor Ty

Unfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globalitythe condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have beensupposedlysurmounted.

Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.