Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Najmi, Samina.

Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-

Series:

Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.

The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in literature.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

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

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.

Contents:

Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano

Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi

Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis

Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen

Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.

Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing

Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens

The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih

Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung

Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese

Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas

Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth

Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada

Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295802305

0295802308

OCLC:

928626911