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Literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature : imagining home / Fang Tang.
Van Pelt Library PS153.C45 T363 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tang, Fang, 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Chinese American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Chinese American authors.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature--Chinese authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature.
- Canadian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Canadian literature--Women authors.
- Home in literature.
- Fantasy in literature.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Chinese Americans--Intellectual life.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinese--Canada--Intellectual life.
- Chinese.
- American literature--Women authors.
- Canadian literature--Chinese authors.
- Chinese--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 195 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This book explores the role of literary fantasy in contemporary women's diasporic narratives to unsettle hegemonic notions of home and to construct their identity. Fantasy in their works plays a subversive function of bringing the unseen culture and unheard voices of the marginalized people"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The articulation of silences : empowering ghosts and rewriting myths in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior
- Homing desire and the use of Cinderella tales in Adeline Yen Mah's Falling leaves return to their roots
- Fantasizing the mother-daughter relationship, cannibalism and posthumous narratives in Ying Chen's Ingratitude
- Crossing boundaries : the reconstruction of queering history and folktales in Larissa Lai's When fox is a thousand.
- Notes:
- Revision of author's PhD thesis: Imagining home : literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tang, Fang, 1986- Literary fantasy in contemporary Chinese diasporic women's literature.
- ISBN:
- 9781498595469
- 1498595464
- OCLC:
- 1125297570
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