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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chu, Patricia P. Assimilating Asians. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606289281 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia P Chu |
| ISBN: | 082232430X 9780822324300 0822324652 9780822324652 |
| OCLC Number: | 41488710 |
| Description: | x, 241 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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". |
| Series Title: | New Americanists. |
| Responsibility: | Patricia P. Chu. |
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"Chu brings social theory and literary analysis together with smart and elegant readings. Hers is one of the first works of Asian American literary criticism to foreground the gendered aspects of narratives of assimilation." -Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form "Bringing fresh perspectives to much-discussed work, Assimilating Asians is a fine book."-Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley Read more...
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- American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Asian American women -- Intellectual life.
- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
- Women and literature -- United States.
- Asian American women in literature.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Authorship -- Sex differences.
- Bildungsromans, American -- History and criticism.
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- Ethnische Identität
- Geschichte 1950-2000.
- USA
- Asiaten
- Asiaten.
- Ethnische Identität.
- Roman.
- USA.
