The Cambridge companion to Asian American literature / edited by Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parikh, Crystal, editor.

Kim, Daniel Y., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature. Written by a host of leading scholars in the field, this book provides insight into the representative movements, regional settings, archival resources and critical reception that define Asian American literature. Covering subjects from immigrant narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies and the problem of translation, this Companion provides insight into the myriad traditions that have shaped the Asian American literary landscape.

Contents:

Part I. Formations of Asian America: immigration, empire, law. Asian American literature within and beyond the immigrant narrative / Min Hyoung Song

America's empire and the Asia-Pacific: constructing Hawai'i and the Philippines / Denise Cruz and Erin Suzuki

Adjudicating Asian America / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa.

Part II. Asian American writing and the legacy of war. Writing the internment / Greg Robinson

The literature of the Korean War and Vietnam War / Daniel Y. Kim and Viet Thanh Nguyen

"The war on terror": post-9/11 south Asian and Arab American literature / Rajini Srikanth.

Part III. The extravagant of genre. Asian American drama / Josephine Yee

Asian American poetry / Josephine Park

Model minority narratives and the Asian American family / Erin Ninh

The writing of translation / Christopher Lee

Popular genres and new media / Betsy Huang

Toward a definition of diaspora literature / Hyungji Park.

Part IV. Identities and postidentities. Feminisms and queer interventions into Asian America / Helena Grice and Crystal Parikh

Comparative race studies and interracialisms / Joseph Keith

Rethinking embodiment and hybridity: mixed-race, adoptee, and disabled subjectiveness / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and Cynthia Wu.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316371725

1316371727

9781316155011

1316155013

OCLC:

920475520