The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature / Christopher Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Christopher (Christopher Ming), 1978-

Series:

Asian America.

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Asian Americans in literature.

Ethnicity in literature.

Literature--Aesthetics.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent co

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Post-Identity Condition; 1. The Strange Smell of Truth: Ethnicity, Translation, and Realism in the Cold War Writings of Eileen Chang; 2. The Ironic Temporalities of Cultural Nationalism; 3. Sound and the Subject in The Woman Warrior and Tripmaster Monkey; 4. Form Giving and the Remains of Identity in A Gesture Life; 5. Semblance, Shame, and the Work of Comparison; Conclusion: The Difference Asian America Makes; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804783705

0804783705

OCLC:

779828611