Assimilating Asians : Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America /

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This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chu, Patricia P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women and literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Bildungsromans, American.
Authorship > Sex differences.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian American women > Intellectual life.
Asian American women in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Asian American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
Roman d'education americain > Histoire et critique.
Art d'ecrire > Differences entre sexes.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis.
Assimilation (Sociologie) dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Bildungsromans, American > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "a city of words"
  • America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada
  • Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura
  • Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee
  • "That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club
  • Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition
  • Coda: "What we should become, what we were."

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