Negotiating identities : an introduction to Asian American women's writing / Helena Grice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grice, Helena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Asian Americans in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

xii, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, [2002]

Summary:

"Negotiating Identities" is a study of the development of writing by Asian American women in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the successful late 20th century writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Joy Kogawa, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gish Jen. It relates the development of Asian writing by women in America - with a comparative element incorporating Britain - to a series of theoretical preoccupations: the mother/daughter dyad, biracialism, ethnic histories, citizenship, genre, and the idea of 'home'.

Contents:

2 Mother-daughter writing of the 1970s and 1980s 35

3 Genre and identity 76

4 Writing Red China: recent Chinese American/British narratives 103

5 Writing biraciality: five Eurasian/American women's texts 129

6 Citizenship and national identity: cultural forms and formations 156

7 Homes and homecomings 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-251) and index.

ISBN:

0719060311

0719060303

OCLC:

50232236