Asian American literature in transition, 1965-1996 / edited by Asha Nadkarni, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nadkarni, Asha, editor.

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- editor.

Series:

Asian American literature in transition ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 411 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 1965-1996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what is now recognizable as an Asian American literary canon. It takes as its central focus the connections among literature, history, and migration, exploring how the formation of Asian American literary studies is necessarily inflected by demographic changes, student activism, the institutionalization of Asian American studies within the U.S. academy, U.S foreign policy (specifically the Cold War and conflicts in Southeast Asia), and the emergence of 'diaspora' and 'transnationalism' as important critical frames. Moving through sections that consider migration and identity, aesthetics and politics, canon formation, and transnationalism and diaspora, this volume tracks predominant themes within Asian American literature to interrogate an ever-evolving field. It features nineteen original essays by leading scholars, and is accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers alike.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

Part I Immigration, Migration, and Movement

Chapter 1 Scrutinizing Impossible Subjects

Chapter 2 The Model Minority and Debt

Chapter 3 Displaced Subjects and Refugee Literature, 1965-1996

Chapter 4 1.5 Generation Literature as Asian Americanist Critique

Part II Politics, Art, and Activism

Chapter 5 Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee

Chapter 6 Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War

Chapter 7 Cross-racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature

Chapter 8 Re/collecting Asian American Performance

Chapter 9 Multiculturalism and Its Discontents

Part III Institutionalization and Canon Formation

Chapter 10 On Recovering Early Asian American Literature

Chapter 11 Asian American Poetics

Chapter 12 Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior : A Milestone in Asian American Literature

Chapter 13 Making a Necessity of Extravagance: Work and Play in the Asian American(ist) Economy

Chapter 14 Marking the Difference Made by "Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity": Lisa Lowe's Impact on Asian American Studies

Part IV Diaspora and the Transnational Turn

Chapter 15 Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return

Chapter 16 Diasporic Longings

Chapter 17 Transnational Sexualities

Chapter 18 Intimacy, Imperialism, and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing

Chapter 19 Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-92280-5

1-108-92231-7

1-108-92060-8

OCLC:

1257250493