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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Leiwei Li |
| ISBN: | 0804734003 9780804734004 0804741301 9780804741309 |
| OCLC Number: | 39223608 |
| Description: | xii, 261 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: alienation, abjection, and Asian American citizenship -- Aiiieeeee! and the predicament of Asian American articulation -- Can Maxine Hong Kingston speak? the contingency of The Woman Warrior -- Canon, collaboration, and the corporeality of culture -- American romances, immigrant incarnations -- Genes, generation, and geospiritual (be)longings -- Eccentric homes: topography, pedagogy, and memory -- The look, the act, the transvestic, and the transpirational Asian -- Ethnic agency and the challenge of representation -- Conclusion: Asian American identity in difference and diaspora. |
| Series Title: | Asian America. |
| Responsibility: | David Leiwei Li. |
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Abstract:
"Since the 1970s, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined." "Imagining the Nation integrates a fine appreciation of the formal features of Asian American literature with the conflict and convergence among different reading communities and the dilemma of ethnic intellectuals caught in the process of their institutionalization. By articulating Asian American structures of feeling across the nexus of East and West, black and white, nation and diaspora, the book both sets out a new terrain for Asian American literary culture and significantly strengthens the multiculturalist challenge to the American canon."--BOOK JACKET.
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