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Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America Patricia P. Chu
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks PS153.A84 C485 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chu, Patricia P.
- Series:
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
- Women and literature--United States.
- Women and literature.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Group identity in literature.
- Authorship--Sex differences.
- Authorship.
- Bildungsroman.
- American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 p. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "a city of words"
- America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada
- Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura
- Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee
- "That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club
- Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition
- Coda: "What we should become, what we were".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0822324652 (paper : alk. paper)
- 082232430X (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 41488710
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