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Form and transformation in Asian American literature /

"This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-, Najmi, Samina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.
Colección:The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing
  • Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens
  • The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih
  • Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung
  • Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese
  • Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas
  • Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth
  • Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada
  • Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing
  • Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano
  • Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi
  • Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis
  • Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen
  • Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.