The Semblance of Identity : Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature.
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Sem...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Asian America.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780804783705 0804783705 |