Asian American Fiction After 1965 : Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility / Christopher T. Fan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fan, Christopher T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Miracle Fiction?

Chapter One DEEP CONDITIONS OF THE WORLD Modernization Theory and Transimperiality

Chapter Two WRITING LIKE AN ENGINEER Postracial Form and Utopia

Chapter Three SHAKESPEARE WORDS Professional Identity and Literary Style

Chapter Four GENRES OF DEPROFESSIONALIZATION Economic Subjectivity and Chinese American Women Writers

Chapter Five ENOUGH? Semiperipheral Structures of Feeling in the Taiwanese American Novel

CONCLUSION Asian Fetish

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231559782

023155978X

OCLC:

1429736967