Form and transformation in Asian American literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.
| Other author | Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- |
| Other author | Najmi, Samina. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press, |
| Description | 296 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies |
| 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 -- |
| Contents | 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 / Rocío 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004027906 |
| ISBN | 0295985046 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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