Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Race & resistance literature & politics in Asian America / [electronic resource] : Race and resistance Viet Thanh Nguyen. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. - ix, 228 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ONE On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 33 -- TWO Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 61 -- THREE The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 87 -- FOUR Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 107 -- FIVE Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel 125 -- Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects 143.


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American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.A84 / N48 2002

810.9/895