Tricksters and Cosmopolitans : Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production / Rei Magosaki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magosaki, Rei, Author.

Series:

American literatures initiatives.

American literatures initiatives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Authorship--Collaboration.

Authorship.

Authorship--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 157 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non–Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the cosmopolitan subject, featuring the writers Sui Sin Far, Jessica Hagedorn, Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, and Min Jin Lee. The newly imagined cosmopolitan subject that emerges from their works dramatically reconfigured Asian American female subjectivity in metropolitan space with a kind of fluidity and ease never before seen. But as Rei Magosaki shows, these narratives also invariably expose the problematic side of this figure, which also serves to perpetuate exploitative structures of Western imperialism and its legacies in late capitalism.Arguing that the actual establishment of such a critical standpoint on imperialism and globalization required the expansive and internationalist vision of editors who supported, cultivated, and promoted these works, Tricksters and Cosmopolitans reveals the negotiations between these authors and their publishers and between the shared investment in both politics and aesthetics that influenced the narrative structure of key works in the Asian American literary canon.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2. The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject

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

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7135-8

0-8232-7134-X

0-8232-7133-1

OCLC:

933596331