Narrating nationalisms : ideology and form in Asian American literature / Jinqi Ling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ling, Jinqi, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

World War, 1939-1945--United States--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans in literature.

Literary form.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix,212p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ling's book rereads five works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-World War II Asian-American literary history.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1. History, Entanglement, and Negotiated Change

2. Writing the Novel, Narrating Discontents: Race and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy

3. Realist Intervention and the Return of the Repressed: Reading Class, Gender, and Culture in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea

4. Performing the Margins: Ethics and the Poetics of Frank Chin's Theatrical Discourse

5. Maxine Hong Kingston's Remapping of Asian American Historical Imagination in China Men

6. Critical Negotiations: Issues in Asian American Cultural Studies

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Bibliography: p187-202. _ Includes index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772538-4

1-280-45346-X

1-4237-4102-1

0-19-535486-9

1-60256-169-9

OCLC:

922952459