Asian American literature in transition, 1930-1965 edited by Victor Bascara, University of California, Los Angeles ; Josephine Nock-Hee Park, University of Pennsylvania

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bascara, Victor, 1970- editor.

Park, Josephine Nock-Hee, 1971- editor.

Series:

Asian American literature in transition 2

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:

"The period from 1930 to 1965 marks a span of dramatic transformation within the United States, from the Great Depression to the new social movements of the 1960s. For Asian American history, the start of this period is deeply marked by Asian exclusion, formalized in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act, and, by its end, the emergence of today's Asian America, remade after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the legislative culmination of multiple efforts to repeal exclusion. On the global stage, these years witnessed dispersed shifts of power that literally remapped the decolonizing world: from the decline of territorial colonialism in the 1930s to the rise of Third World liberation in the 1960s. And in the middle of this period World War II erupted, sharpening political alignments that would be hastily redrawn in the about-face of the Cold War, which ignited hotspots in Asia. This volume seeks to draw out the national and global dimensions of the literary output in this period of transitions, realignments, remappings, and remakings"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Part I Transitions Approached through Concepts and History

Chapter 1 The Popular Front and Asiatic Modes of Cultural Production

Chapter 2 Asian American Realism

Chapter 3 On Modernism, Decolonization, and Asian American Literature in Transition

Chapter 4 The Cultures of Japanese Internment: A Short History of "Funny" Turns

Chapter 5 The 1947 Partition, War, and Internment: Hidden Histories of Migration and Displacement in Transnational Asia

Chapter 6 Cold War Fiction: The Flower Drum Song's Political Education

Chapter 7 Desert, Island, Ocean, Swamp : Cold War Ecologies and the Asian American Environment

Part II Transitions Approached through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History

Chapter 8 Lin Yutang and the Invention of Asian America, 1949

Chapter 9 H. T. Tsiang Against the World

Chapter 10 "A Congressman from India": Dalip Singh Saund in Cold War America

Chapter 11 Younghill Kang, Transpacific Agent

Chapter 12 Transition and Obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United States

Chapter 13 America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral: An Ecocritical Case Study of Carlos Bulosan

Chapter 14 Bienvenido Santos: Writing the Interstitial Spaces of Asian American Literature

Chapter 15 Women Writing War in Asia/America

Chapter 16 Japanese Incarceration, Settler Colonialism

Chapter 17 Jade Snow Wong and the Making of Model Minority Democracy

Chapter 18 A Little Bit of Form Goes a Long Way: No-No Boy and the Ruse of Empire

Chapter 19 Richard Eun-kook Kim

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 02, 2021)

ISBN:

9781108891080

110889108X

9781108812948

1108812945

OCLC:

1253683763

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