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Chinese American literature since the 1850s / Xiao-huang Yin ; foreword by Roger Daniels.
Van Pelt Library PS153.C45 Y56 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yin, Xiao-huang.
- Series:
- Asian American experience
- The Asian American experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Chinese American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Chinese American authors.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--Chinese influences.
- Chinese Americans--Intellectual life.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese Americans in literature.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Essential introduction and guide to the development of Chinese literature in America.
- Contents:
- Plea and protest: voices of early Chinese immigrants
- Writings of the "cultivated Chinese": improving the image to win
- Sympathy and acceptance
- The voice of a Eurasian: Sui Sin Far and her writings
- Seeking a place in American life: autobiographical writings of second-generation Chinese
- What's in a name: Chinese-language literature in America
- Immigration blues: themes and subject matter in Chinese-language
- Literature since the 1960s
- Multiple voices and the "war of words": Chinese American literature
- In the contemporary era
- Epilogue
- English-Chinese glossary
- English-Chinese bibliography
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-296) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252025245
- 9780252025242
- 0252073487
- 9780252073489
- OCLC:
- 41400667
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
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