The ghosts within : literary imaginations of Asian America / Janna Odabas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odabas, Janna, 1984- author.

Series:

Lettre (Transcript (Firm))

Lettre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

Ghosts in literature.

Physical Description:

262 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2018].

Contents:

1 "risk the violence of reading the ghost" -Theoretical Reflections on Ghost Figures p. 51

Psychoanalytic and Poststructuralist Ghosts p. 52

Literary Ghosts p. 66

2 Postcolonial Melodramatic Ghost Figures: Signs of Dis-ease in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Behold the Many p. 79

Seth: An Unreadable Ghost Figure p. 81

Behold the Many as Postcolonial Melodrama p. 98

3 Traditions of Haunting: The Narration of a Ghostly Self and a Family's Ghosts in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother p. 121

Life Writing: Narrating a Ghostly Self p. 125

Family Hauntings: Folk Knowledge and Psychoanalytical Ghost Figures p. 139

4 Renegotiating a Global Asian America: The Ghost in Global Genre Fiction by Amitav Ghosh, Amy Tan, and Ed Lin p. 169

Haunting Postcolonial Alternatives in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome p. 179

A Visit to Politically Charged Territories in Spirit: Amy Tan's Ghost Narrator p. 201

Global Genre Fiction and Ghost Beliefs in Ed Lin's Ghost Month p. 221

Global Asian America: The Ghost Between Tradition and Innovation p. 236.

Notes:

Originally presented as author's thesis at the Graduate School of North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-262).

Other Format:

PDF version

ISBN:

9783837644494

3837644499

OCLC:

1082251121

Publisher Number:

99980400345

9783837644494