Transnationalism and the Asian American heroine : essays on literature, film, myth and media / edited by Lan Dong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dong, Lan, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

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

American fiction--Women authors.

Asian American women in literature.

Asian American women in motion pictures.

Asian American women--Intellectual life.

Asian American women.

Transnationalism in literature.

Feminism in literature.

American fiction--Asian American authors.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]

Summary:

"This collection examines transnational Asian American women in fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally rooted in Asian regions have been transformed and re-imagined in America and have played significant roles in Asian American literary studies as well as community life. The interdisciplinary essays display perspectives in Asian American literary studies and transnational feminism"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: heroines of transnational Asian America / Lan Dong

Of princesses pari and fox girls: Nora okja Keller's transnational performance of Korean histories and myths / Silvia Schultermandl

Water birth: domestic violence and monstrosity in Hiromi Goto's The kappa child / Nancy Kang

Between ruination and reconciliation: dragon princesses, Cambodian American heroines, and Loung ung's Lucky child / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

From female self-sacrifice to Korean freedom fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha's Dictee / Karen An-hwei Lee

Merlinda bobis: the transnational Filipina warrior between the postcolonial exotic and the Babaylan/Catalonan / Marie-Therese C. Sulit

Mulan against Gwan Gung: performing myths on a transnational stage / Lan Dong

Re-imagining happily-ever-after in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Amy N. Nishimura

Adopting a different posture and relocating one's roots: the trung legend in Vietnamese American narratives / Tina Lynn Powell

The Nicole subic rape case and the Chingada in the Philippine imaginary / Danicar Mariano

Lost in translation: American critical audience and the transnational Chinese swordswoman / Catherine Gomes

Phoolan Devi: the primordial tradition of the bandit queen / J. Sunita Peacock

Translating mother's tongue(s) and traveling bodies: palimpsest and diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Pei-Ju Wu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786446322

0786446323

OCLC:

635492297