Transnational Asian American literature : sites and transits / edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Shirley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 306 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally balanced mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality.

Contents:

I Fiction

1 Re-Signed Subjects: Women, Work, and World in the Fiction of Carlos Bulosan and Hisaye Yamamoto / Cheryl Higashida 29

2 "Just Another Ethnic Pol": Literary Citizenship in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker / Liam Corley 55

3 The Cartography of Justice and Truthful Refractions Found in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange / Ruth Y. Hsu 75

4 "Valuing" Transnational Queerness: Politicized Bodies and Commodified Desires in Asian American Literature / Stephen Hong Sohn 100

5 Ethical Responsibility in the Intersubjective Spaces: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" and "A Temporary Matter." / Gita Rajan 123

6 Abjection, Masculinity, and Violence in Brian Roley's American Son and Hans Ong's Fixer Chao / Eleanor Ty 142

II Memoir/Autobiography

7 Begin Here: A Critical Introduction to the Asian American Childhood / Rocio G. Davis 161

8 The Poetics of Liminality and Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton's Me and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Katherine Hyunmi Lee 181

9 Nation, Immigrant, Text: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Srimati Mukherjee 197

III Poetry

10 Kimiko's Hahn's "Interlingual Poetics" in Mosquito and Ant / Robert Grotjohn 219

11 "Composed of Many Lengths of Bone": Myung Mi Kim's Reimagination of Image and Epic / Josephine Hock-Hee Park 235

12 A Way in the World of an Asian American Existence: Agha Shahid Ali's Transimmigrant Spacing of North America and India/Kashmir / Maimuna Dali Islam 257

13 Writing Otherwise than as a "Native Informant": Ha Jin's Poetry / Zhou Xiaojing 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1592134505

1592134513

OCLC:

60835565