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Reading the literatures of Asian America /

A unique collection of essays explores the diversity of Asian American literature from the 19th century to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lim, Shirley (Editor ), Ling, Amy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1992.
Colección:Asian American history and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ambivalent American: Asian American literature on the cusp / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Versions of identity in post-activist Asian American poetry / George Uba
  • Filipinos in the United States and their literature of exile / Oscar V. Campomanes
  • Beyond "clay walls": Korean American literature / Chung-Hei Yun
  • Witnessing the Japanese Canadian experience in World War II: processual structure, symbolism, and irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan / Cheng Lok Chua
  • Ethnicizing gender: an exploration of sexuality as sign in Chinese immigrant literature / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
  • Rebels and heroines: subversive narratives in the stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto / Stan Yogi
  • Facing the incurable: patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea / Ruth Y. Hsiao
  • "Don't tell": imposed silences in The Color Purple and The Woman Warrior / King-Kok Cheung
  • Tang Ao in America: male subject positions in China Men / Donald C. Goellnicht.
  • Sense of place, history, and the concept of "local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American literatures / Stephen H. Sumida
  • Momotaro's exile: John Okada's No-No Boy / Gayle K. Fujita Sato
  • Blue Dragon, White Tiger: the bicultural stance of Vietnamese American literature / Renny Christopher
  • From isolation to integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's fiction / Qui-Phiet Tran
  • South Asia writes North America: prose fictions and autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora / Craig Tapping
  • Creating one's self: the Eaton sisters / Amy Ling
  • The production of Chinese American tradition: displacing American Orientalist discourse / David Leiwei Li
  • Clashing constructs of reality: reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as indigenous ethnography / Patricia Lin
  • The death of Asia on the American field of representation / James S. Moy
  • Ping Chong's terra in/cognita: monsters on stage / Suzanne R. Westfall.