| Description |
xvii, 376 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Asian American history and culture |
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Asian American history and culture.
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| Contents |
Sense of place, history, and the concept of "local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American literatures / Stephen H. Sumida -- Momotaro's exile: John Okada's No-No Boy / Gayle K. Fujita Sato -- Blue Dragon, White Tiger: the bicultural stance of Vietnamese American literature / Renny Christopher -- From isolation to integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's fiction / Qui-Phiet Tran -- South Asia writes North America: prose fictions and autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora / Craig Tapping -- Creating one's self: the Eaton sisters / Amy Ling -- The production of Chinese American tradition: displacing American Orientalist discourse / David Leiwei Li -- Clashing constructs of reality: reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as indigenous ethnography / Patricia Lin -- The death of Asia on the American field of representation / James S. Moy -- Ping Chong's terra in/cognita: monsters on stage / Suzanne R. Westfall |
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The ambivalent American: Asian American literature on the cusp / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Versions of identity in post-activist Asian American poetry / George Uba -- Filipinos in the United States and their literature of exile / Oscar V. Campomanes -- Beyond "clay walls": Korean American literature / Chung-Hei Yun -- Witnessing the Japanese Canadian experience in World War II: processual structure, symbolism, and irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan / Cheng Lok Chua -- Ethnicizing gender: an exploration of sexuality as sign in Chinese immigrant literature / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong -- Rebels and heroines: subversive narratives in the stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto / Stan Yogi -- Facing the incurable: patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea / Ruth Y. Hsiao -- "Don't tell": imposed silences in The Color Purple and The Woman Warrior / King-Kok Cheung -- Tang Ao in America: male subject positions in China Men / Donald C. Goellnicht |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
A copy of this title was donated by Professor Ron Klein |
| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans -- In literature.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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| Author |
Lim, Shirley.
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Ling, Amy.
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| LC no. |
92016844 |
| ISBN |
087722935X (cloth) |
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0877229368 (paper) |
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