Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature

Name: Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature
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ISBN: 9780691070926

ISBN-10: 069107092X

ISBN-13: 9780691070926

Edition: 2001

Authors: Leslie Bow

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Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati…

Book details

List price: $67.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Theorizing Gendered Constructions of Ethnic and National Collectivity



To Enjoy Being a Girl: Sexuality and Partial Citizenship



The Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?: Incorporating Racial Difference Through Feminist Narrative



Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization: Le Ly Hayslip's Bad (Girl) Karma and the Art of Neutrality



The Gendered Subject of Human Rights: Domestic Infidelity in Irrawaddy Tango and The Scent of the Gods


Afterword: Multiplying Loyalties


Notes


Works Cited


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