Double Agency Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture

Name: Double Agency Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
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ISBN: 9780804751865

ISBN-10: 0804751862

ISBN-13: 9780804751865

Edition: 2005

Authors: Tina Chen

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Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for leasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 8/9/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: On Impersonation and the Nature of the Not-so-secret Agent



Impersonation and Stereotype



Impersonation and Double Agency: Theorizing the Practice, Practicing the Theory



Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu



De/Posing Stereotype on the Asian American Stage



Double Agents, Double Agency



Bodily Negotiations: The Politics of Performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach



Shamanism and the Subject(s) of History in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman



Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts: The Double(d) Agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker


Coda


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Works Cited