Unquiet tropes : form, race, and Asian American literature / Elda E. Tsou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsou, Elda E., author.

Series:

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 212 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In Unquiet Tropes, Tsou reconceptualizes Asian American literature as a set of highly particular classical rhetorical tropes including antanaclasis, rhetorical question, apophasis, catachresis, and allegory. Looking at five canonical works- Aiiieeeee!, No-No Boy, China Men, Blu's Hanging, and Native Speaker-Tsou shows how these texts use figurative means to confront the problem of race. She also explores how traces of Asian American history live on through these figures. Each case study in Unquiet Tropes considers a different scenario-defiance, coercion, necessity, error, and deceit-to show how literary representation from the 1950s through 1997 has responded to a specific political condition. In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by David Palumbo-Liu, K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh Vo, and Cathy Schlund-Vials. Founding editor, Sucheng Chan; editor emeritus, Michael Omi. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rhetorical Question: No-No Boy and Coercion 33

2 Apophasis: China Men and Necessity 67

3 Catachresis: Blu's Hanging and Error 100

4 Allegory: Native Speaker and Deceit 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439911242

143991124X

9781439911259

1439911258

OCLC:

894128471