Semblance of Identity Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

Name: Semblance of Identity Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature
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ISBN: 9780804778701

ISBN-10: 0804778701

ISBN-13: 9780804778701

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christopher Lee

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The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world.The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather an identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity.Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projects…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Post-Identity Condition



The Strange Smell of Truth: Ethnicity, Translation, and Realism in the Cold War Writings of Eileen Chang



The Ironic Temporalities of Cultural Nationalism



Sound and the Subject in The Woman Warrior and Tripmaster Monkey



Form Giving and the Remains of Identity in A Gesture Life



Semblance, Shame, and the Work of Comparison


Conclusion: The Difference Asian America Makes


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