Form and transformation in Asian American literature /

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Other Authors: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- (Editor), Najmi, Samina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005]
Series:Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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Table of 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 / 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.