Form and transformation in Asian American literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.

Contributor(s): Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- [editor.] | Najmi, Samina [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studiesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780295802305Subject(s): American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism | Asian Americans -- Intellectual life | Asian Americans in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Form and transformation in Asian American literature.DDC classification: 810.9/895 LOC classification: PS153.A84 | F67 2005Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing --
Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocio G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing --

Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocio G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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