Asian American Renaissance

Literary Encounters Across Time

AvMai Wang

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del 4 i serien Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

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How do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature? The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time is the first scholarly investigation into the formal and archival links between canonical authors such as Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and their twentieth-century Asian American counterparts. It investigates how a transnational group of authors Carlos Bulosan, Younghill Kang, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eileen Chang inherit the American Renaissance as both a racial allegory and a supplier of literary forms such as the romance and the jeremiad.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399529211

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Mai Wang is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her critical and creative work has been published in Amerasia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Hyphen Magazine and other venues. She holds a PhD in English from Stanford University. She is currently working on her second book, a critical biography of the Chinese diasporic writer Eileen Chang.

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The Asian American Renaissance offers a fascinating account of how Asian American authors have incorporated the ideas, authors and texts of the ‘American Renaissance’ to critique liberalism and explore questions of Asian belonging. Required reading for those interested in nineteenth-century American and Asian American literature.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Afterlives of the American Renaissance1. Younghill Kang, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Realist Romance2. Carlos Bulosan, Walt Whitman, and the Transnational Jeremiad3. Eileen Chang, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Search for Negative Freedom4. Staging Civil Disobedience with Maxine Hong KingstonConclusion: Tradition and the Asian American SubjectBibliographyIndex