Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures

Name: Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
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ISBN: 9780585090337

ISBN-10: 0585090335

ISBN-13: 9780585090337

Edition: N/A

Authors: Sheng-mei Ma

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This book opens with an interrogation of the representation of immigrants in Asian American and, to a lesser extent, Asian Diaspora literatures, including works by such writers as Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, and Bharati Mukherjee. Immigrant subjectivities in these texts are frequently subsumed in the urgent need to self-fashion an Asian American identity, and take the peculiar form of "immigrant schizophrenic". Ma also explores how the drive to "claim America" manifests itself as an eroticization of white bodies in male immigrant and minority writers. He then directs his attention to immigrant self-representation from the unique yet representative positionality of Taiwanese…

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List price: $59.50
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Michigan State University, USA