Search Results for Asian American literature

...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . 844  American Literature order to remake them. In an important sense...

... possibilities. Unquiet Tropes insists on a transformative rather than an additive mode of reading. Tsou does not simply read formal rhetoric as ancillary to these works but asks us to fundamentally reconceive Asian American literature as “a set of rhetorical tropes taking shape around highly specific...

...Jeehyun Lim Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature . By Ninh Erin Khue . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . vii, 205 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $23.00 . How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging...

...). The exposed fragility of the friendly thus invited attempts, in the wake of The Manchurian Candidate , at the impossible task of matching American friends with Asian friendlies. In his now largely forgotten 1964 best seller, The Martyred , Richard E. Kim creates a friendly “elevated out of [the] distant...

...Robin E. Field The Nature of Trauma in American Novels . By Balaev Michelle . Evanston, IL : Northwestern Univ. Press . 2012 . xix , 141 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $29.95 . Inhuman Citizenship: Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature . By Chang Juliana...

...Sue-Im Lee Abstract This essay identifies a need for a postvisible definition of Asian American literature. Traditionally Asian American literature has been identified by the racial descent of the writer and recognizable “Asian American” content, but such qualifications are no longer sufficient...

... of recognition, and whose theories can best explain that exciting body of lit- erature. Daryl Cumber Dance, University of Richmond Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature...

... and by immigrants themselves’’ (2). Taking Frank Chin (and the co-editors of Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers [1974]) as an adversary, Ma describes a canon of Asian American literature that insists...

.... Christina Bieber, Wheaton College The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Trans- nation. By Rachel C. Lee. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 205 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95. In the ‘‘postconsensus’’ state of Asian American Studies, Rachel Lee...

...Sean Metzger Duke University Press 2007 Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture . By Tina Chen. Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxvi, 247 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War...

...Sarah Schiff Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 . By Lee Julia H. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 219 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $23.00 . The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion...

...Rei Magosaki Abstract This article sees post–World War II wartime incarceration literature as a multigenerational corpus and reassesses the handling of this material in Asian American literary criticism and cultural analysis. As a way of addressing the expanding corpus of wartime incarceration...

...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...

... Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing. By Cathy J. Schlund- Vials. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2011. xix, 224 pp. Paper, $24.95. The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary. By Lori Harrison-Kahan. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2011. 229 pp. Paper...

.... ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives. By Eleanor Ty. Toronto, Ont.: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2004. xv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95. America’s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893–1945. By Colleen Lye. Princeton, N.J...

... the institutionalization of Asian American studies during its rapid growth over the past decade. National Abjection focuses primarily on Asian American drama and perfor- 190 American Literature mance, a relatively understudied area, discussing various aspects of Asian American theater primarily in terms...

...Alex Feerst 2006 Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions . By A. Robert Lee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, with University of Edinburgh Press. 2003. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Urban Triage...

... and by immigrants themselves’’ (2). Taking Frank Chin (and the co-editors of Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers [1974]) as an adversary, Ma describes a canon of Asian American literature that insists...

...— The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature (Lee 2014 ), Keywords for Asian American Studies (Schlund-Vials, Vo, and Wong 2015 ), The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Parikh and Kim 2015 ), and The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (Srikanth and Song...

..., while precision medicine promises to replace race with genomics, Asian American literature is key to showing how this “postracial” promise depends on framing racial inequality as a symptom, rather than an underlying etiology, of infrastructures of public health. [email protected]...