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Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America

Author: Patricia P Chu
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series: New Americanists.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and  Read more...

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Chu, Patricia P.
Assimilating Asians.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606289281
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 Read more...

 
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