Across Meridians History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's Transnational Novels

Name: Across Meridians History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's Transnational Novels
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ISBN: 9780804778015

ISBN-10: 0804778019

ISBN-13: 9780804778015

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jinqi Ling

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Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. InAcross Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Ling's study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism.Arguing that Yamashita's most important contribution is her incorporation of a North-South vector into the East-West conceptual paradigm, Ling…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Politics of Geography: Or, a Troping of Asian American Spatial Imagination



Southward Migration: Empire Building and Transculturation in Brazil-Maru



Subterranean Transnationality: Race, Affect, and Material Form in Circle K Cycles



Writing against Reification: Temporality and Popular Genre in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest



Thinking Magic, Reinventing the Real: Consciousness and Decolonization in Tropic of Orange



Toward a Critical Internationalism: Nation, Revolt, and Performance in I Hotel


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index