The Ghosts Within : Literary Imaginations of Asian America /

The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Odabas, Janna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Lettre
Temas:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Ghosts in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American literature > Asian American authors
Ghosts in literature
Asiaten
Literatur
Geist > Motiv
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1. "risk the violence of reading the ghost"
  • Theoretical Reflections on Ghost Figures
  • 2. Postcolonial Melodramatic Ghost Figures: Signs of Dis-ease in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Behold the Many
  • 3. Traditions of Haunting: The Narration of a Ghostly Self and a Family's Ghosts in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother
  • 4. Renegotiating a Global Asian America: The Ghost in Global Genre Fiction by Amitav Ghosh, Amy Tan, and Ed Lin
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited

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