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Reading the literatures of Asian America, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling

Label
Reading the literatures of Asian America, edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Reading the literatures of Asian America
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
25833409510555
Responsibility statement
edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling
Table Of Contents
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. GoellnichtSense 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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