Interethnic Imagination Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

Name: Interethnic Imagination Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction
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ISBN: 9780195377361

ISBN-10: 0195377362

ISBN-13: 9780195377361

Edition: 2009

Authors: Caroline Rody

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In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures--in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications--a radical interaction has taken place that, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, has shifted our understanding of ethnicity away from 'ethnic in itself' to 'ethnic amidst a hybrid collective'. In light of this, Caroline Rody proposes a new paradigm for understanding the changing terrain of contemporary fiction. She claims that what we have long read as ethnic literature is in the process of becoming 'interethnic'. Examining an extensive range of Asian American fictions, The Interethnic Imagination offers sustained readings of three especially…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.18" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




The Interethnic Paradigm and the Case of Asian American Fiction


Interchapter: Asian/African: Black Presences in Asian American Fiction



"With Darkness Yet": Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Blackness, and the Interethnic Imagination



Letters from Camp Gugelstein: Interethnicity and Jewishness in Gish Jen's Mono in the Promised Land


Interchapter: Cross-ethnic Jewishness in Asian American and Other Contemporary Fiction



Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and the Transnational, Interethnic Imagination


Epilogue: Mixed Races, Mixed Children, Mixed Outcomes


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