Form and transformation in Asian American literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.
| Other author | Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- |
| Other author | Najmi, Samina. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2005. |
| Description | 296 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies. ^A683172 |
| 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. |
| LCCN | 2004027906 |
| ISBN | 0295985046 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | PS153.A84 F67 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |