Imagining the nation : Asian American literature and cultural consent David Leiwei Li

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, David Leiwei, 1959-

Series:

Asian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--United States--History.

Literature and society.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans in literature.

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.

Contents:

Introduction: alienation, abjection, and Asian American citizenship

Aiiieeeee! and the predicament of Asian American articulation

Can Maxine Hong Kingston speak? the contingency of The Woman Warrior

Canon, collaboration, and the corporeality of culture

American romances, immigrant incarnations

Genes, generation, and geospiritual (be)longings

Eccentric homes: topography, pedagogy, and memory

The look, the act, the transvestic, and the transpirational Asian

Ethnic agency and the challenge of representation

Conclusion: Asian American identity in difference and diaspora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0804734003 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

39223608