Tricksters and cosmopolitans : cross-cultural collaborations in Asian American literary production / Rei Magosaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magosaki, Rei, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Authorship--Collaboration.

Authorship.

Authorship--Social aspects--United States.

Authors and publishers--United States.

Authors and publishers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Tricksters and Cosmopolitans".

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Locating Trickster Poetics: Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1889) and Walter Hines Page

Silence as Signifying: Sui Sin Far's Short Stories and William Hayes Ward

2. The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject

San Francisco's Multicultural Avant-Garde Literary Scene

A Star Is Born: Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food"

The Death of the Artist: Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B

Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food"

3. L.A.-Paris-New York: The Parameters of Literary Production at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998)

Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2003)

Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street: Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2007)

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823271320

0823271323