Narrating Nationalisms Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature

Name: Narrating Nationalisms Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature
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ISBN: 9780195111163

ISBN-10: 0195111168

ISBN-13: 9780195111163

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jinqi Ling

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This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of postwar Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian…

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/24/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.39" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




History, Entanglement, and Negotiated Change



Writing the Novel, Narrating Discontents: Race and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy



Realist Intervention and the Return of the Repressed: Reading Class, Gender, and Culture in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea



Performing the Margins: Ethics and the Poetics of Frank Chin's Theatrical Discourse



Maxine Hong Kingston's Remapping of Asian American Historical Imagination in China Men



Critical Negotiations: Issues in Asian American Cultural Studies


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index