Cities of Others : Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature /

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Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public spaces in literature.
Cities and towns in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
American literature > Asian American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Espaces publics dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Contested urban space
  • "The woman about town": Transgressing raced and gendered boundaries in Sui Sin Far's writings
  • Claiming right to the city: Lin Yutang's "Chinatown Family"
  • "Our inside story" of Chinatown: Fae Myenne Ng's "Bone"
  • Chinatown as an embattled pedagogical space: Frank Chin's short story cycle and "Donald Duk"
  • Inhabititing the city as exiles: Bienvenido N. Santos's "What the Hell for you left your heart in San Francisco"
  • The city as a "Contact Zone": / Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music"
  • "The living voice of the city": Change-rae Lee's "Native Speaker"
  • Mapping the global city and "the Other Scene" of globalization: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Tropic of Orange"
  • Conclusion: the I-Hotel and other places.

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