The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives / Eleanor Ty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American prose literature.

Asian Canadians in literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

Chinese Canadians in motion pictures.

Asian American authors.

Physical Description:

xv, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]

Contents:

Part I Visuality, Representation, and the Gaze

1 Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children 33

2 A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor 54

3 Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness 69

Part II Transformations Through the Sensual

4 To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces 85

5 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife 101

6 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony 116

Part III Invisible Minorities in Asian America

7 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept 137

8 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms 152

9 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-218) and index.

ISBN:

0802088317

0802086047

OCLC:

53161778