Asian American literature in transition, 1996-2020 edited by Betsy Huang, Clark University, Massachusetts, and Victor Román Mendoza, University of Michigan

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Betsy, 1966- editor.

Mendoza, Victor Román, 1976- editor.

Series:

Asian American literature in transition volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2021

Summary:

"This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1992 and the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy - desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts - that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contexts"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Present Tensions, Future Flux

Part I Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics

Chapter 1 Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Envisioning the Anthropocene in Ecocritical Asian North American Literature

Chapter 2 The Garden in the Machine: Grace Lee Boggs's Living for Change: An Autobiography and Detroit's Urban-Agrarian Future

Chapter 3 Writing Asia-Latin America: Migrant Intersectionality and Differential Racializations in the Literature of Doris Moromisato and Siu Kam Wen

Chapter 4 States of Violence: 9/11, the "War on Terror," and South Asian, Arab, and Muslim American Literature

Part II Intersections, Intimacies

Chapter 5 Between the Heteronormative Model Minority and the Homonormative LGBTQ Subject: Historicizing Contemporary Queer Asian American Literature

Chapter 6 Intimacies and Animacies: Queer Ecologies in Asian American Literature

Chapter 7 Trans Feminism, Asian America's Queer Exception?

Chapter 8 No Home Away from Home: Queer Asian North American Heritage Plots

Part III Genres, Modalities

Chapter 9 The Asiatic Modal Imagination

Chapter 10 Revisualizing Race: Graphic Narratives and Asian American Literature

Chapter 11 Contemporary Asian American Women's Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form

Chapter 12 This Is Not a Page: The Changing Vehicles of Asian American Literature

Part IV Movements, Speculations

Chapter 13 Asian American Literary Studies and the Challenge of Utopia

Chapter 14 What Is Asian America to Asians?: Two Episodes of Transpacific Disturbance

Chapter 15 Mixed-Race Asian American Literature at the Turn into the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 16 Global Asias: On the Structural Incoherence of Imaginable Ageography

Chapter 17 Finale

Or, Alternative Originaries: Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2021)

Other Format:

Print version Asian American literature in transition, 1996-2020

ISBN:

9781108914109

1108914101

OCLC:

1233024759

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