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Transforming Chinese American literature : a study of history, sexuality, and ethnicity / Joan Chiung-huei Chang. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chang, Joan Chiung-huei, 1962-
- Series:
- Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 20.
- Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; vol. 20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Chinese American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Chinese Americans in literature.
- Ethnicity in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Chinese Americans--Intellectual life.
- Chinese Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 202 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature.
- As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What a Chinese American is Not
- Ch. 1. Reviewing History: A Paper Transformation
- Ch. 2. Redefining Autobiography: A Genre Transformation
- Ch. 3. Reconstructing Mythology: A Myth Transformation
- Ch. 4. Recreating Tradition: An Orality Transformation
- Ch. 5. Revoking Orthodoxy: A Canon Transformation
- Conclusion: What a Chinese American Is.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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