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Across meridians : history and figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's transnational novels.

Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ling, Jinqi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Politics of Geography: Or, a Troping of Asian American Spatial Imagination; 2. Southward Migration: Empire Building and Transculturation in Brazil- Maru; 3. Subterranean Transnationality: Race, Affect, and Material Form in Circle K Cycles; 4. Writing against Reification: Temporality and Popular Genre in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest; 5. Thinking Magic, Reinventing the Real: Consciousness and Decolonization in Tropic of Orange; 6. Toward a Critical Internationalism: Nation, Revolt, and Performance in I Hotel; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.