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The interethnic imagination : roots and passages in contemporary Asian American fiction / Caroline Rody.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rody, Caroline, 1960- author.
- Series:
- Imagining the Americas.
- Interethnic Imagination
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Ethnic relations in literature.
- Multiracial people in literature.
- Cultural fusion in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 196 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rody proposes a new paradigm for understanding the changing terrain of contemporary fiction. She claims that what we have long read as ethnic literature is in the process of becoming 'interethnic'. Examining an extensive range of Asian American fictions, she offers readings of three especially compelling examples.
- Contents:
- The interethnic paradigm and the case of Asian American fiction
- Asian/African: Black presences in Asian American fiction
- "With darkness yet": Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Blackness, and the interethnic imagination
- Letters from Camp Gugelstein: Interethnicity and Jewishness in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land
- Cross-ethnic Jewishness in Asian American and other contemporary fictioin
- Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange and the transnational, interethnic imagination
- Mixed races, mixed children mixed outcomes.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-970363-9
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