Asian American Literature

AvBella Adams

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of this book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisible. Of particular importance to the writers selected for case studies are questions of racial identity, cultural history and literary value with respect to dominant American ideologies.Key features* The first readily available introductory guide to Asian American literature* Discusses a representative range of Asian American literature, providing asense of the diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing* Provides close readings of key texts in the form of case studies in their cultural, historical and critical contexts* Encourages reflection on questions of literary value, canonicity and the scopeand purpose of literary studies

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-04-17
Mått:138 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:343 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748622726

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Bella Adams is a part-time lecturer in American Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.Author of Amy Tan, Contemporary World Writers Series (Manchester University Press, 2004).

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Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronologyIntroductionSome Thoughts on Ethnicity and WritingA History of Asian American LiteraturesAsian American Canon FormationAbout this BookChapter 1 American Ways of Looking, 1880s-1920sContexts and IntertextsYan Phou Lee, When I was a Boy in China (1887)Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected Short Stories (1900-15)ConclusionChapter 2 We are America, 1930s-50sContexts and IntertextsCarlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949)Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51)ConclusionChapter 3 Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960s-70sContexts and IntertextsJade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988)Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980)ConclusionChapter 4 Between Worlds, the 1980sContexts and IntertextsJoy Kogawa, Obasan (1981)Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988)Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983)ConclusionChapter 5 Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990sContexts and IntertextsRefugee LiteraturesLan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997)Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990)Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998)Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995)ConclusionConclusionStudent ResourcesGlossarySelected Electronic ResourcesGuide to Further ReadingIndex