Imagining the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Nation write by David Leiwei Li. This book was released on 1998. Imagining the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.
Reading the Literatures of Asian America
Reading the Literatures of Asian America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading the Literatures of Asian America write by Shirley Lim. This book was released on 1992-10-19. Reading the Literatures of Asian America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American" is replaced in this volume with the rich diversity of highly disparate peoples. Languages, religions, races and cultural and national backgrounds. Examining a century of Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong, the contributors address the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Canadian and Hawaiian literature are also considered.
Reading Asian American Literature
Reading Asian American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Asian American Literature write by Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. This book was released on 1993-07-12. Reading Asian American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Wong does so by establishing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature through the study of four motifs--food and eating, the Doppelg,nger figure, mobility, and play--in their multiple sociohistorical contexts. Occurring across ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries, these motifs resonate with each other in distinctly Asian American patterns that universalistic theories cannot uncover. Two rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," further unify this original, wide-ranging investigation. Authors studied include Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi.
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature write by Begoña Simal-González. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian American writing, from Eaton’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) to Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013), through an ecocritical lens. The volume explores the most relevant landmarks in Asian American literature: the first-contact narratives written by Bulosan, Kingston, Mukherjee, and Jen; the controversial texts published by Sui Sin Far (Edith Eaton) at the time of the Yellow Peril; the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrated by Wong’s Homebase and Kingston’s China Men; old and recent examples of “internment literature” dealing with the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII (Sone, Houston, Miyake, Kadohata); and the new trends in Asian American literature since the 1990s, exemplified by Yamashita’s and Ozeki’s novels, which explore the challenges of our transnational, transnatural era. Begoña Simal-González’s ecocritical readings of these texts provide crucial interdisciplinary insights, addressing and analyzing important narratives within Asian American culture and literature.
An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature
An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature write by King-Kok Cheung. This book was released on 1997. An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A survey of Asian American literature.
