Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature
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Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

About this book

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 advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.

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Yes, you can access Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature by Xiaojing Zhou, Samina Najmi, Xiaojing Zhou,Samina Najmi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Asian American Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies
  4. Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority
  5. The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition
  6. Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America
  7. Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education
  8. Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country
  9. Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse
  10. Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn
  11. Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading across Traditions in the Poetry of Timothy Liu
  12. Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
  13. Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
  14. Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
  15. Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World
  16. Notes on Contributors
  17. Index