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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 468–471.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Victor Bascara The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction . By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00. The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University . By Mark Chiang...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 839–854.
Published: 01 December 2016
... explores the poetics and politics of space in Asian American urban literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. Rachel Lee interrogates how a biopolitical framework can reorient the ways the field of Asian American studies approaches race, and in turn what Asian American cultural productions...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Tina Chen Abstract This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of violent conflict and confrontation throughout the nineteenth century. It argues for the centrality of this intergenerational Japanese American corpus in Asian American and US literary and cultural studies, anchored as the body of work is in the historical trajectories of US imperialism and settler...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Crystal Parikh The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
...R. John Williams Despite his enormous popularity as a native interpreter of Chinese culture for Western readers, Lin Yutang's literary career has been largely ignored in American studies and only selectively attended to in Asian and Asian American studies. This essay argues that much...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of assembling and retelling destabilize the dominant narrative of a resolved family or national trauma to reflect divergent embodied experiences of distress and disability effected by racial debilitation. Offering concentric analysis of textual and archival reordering via Asian American studies, disability...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jasmine An Abstract This article draws on the formal and aesthetic qualities of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée as a critical model for theorizing the transnational legacies of colonialism and empire embedded in the acts of language learning and as an opening for Asian American literary studies...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Michelle N. Huang Abstract Illuminating how biomedical capital invests in white and Asian American populations while divesting from Black surplus populations, this article proposes recent Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study for analyzing futurities where healthcare...
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American Literature 11597552.
Published: 16 December 2024
...Derek Lee Abstract This study identifies Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s epic fantasy Monstress as a flashpoint for contemporary Asian American subject formation and the literary history of the bildungsroman. Though it follows the templates of both European and Asian American bildung , the graphic...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of the Anglo-American
ownership classes.
Scholarship in the field of Asian American studies referencing
Chang and Eng invariably reads their presence on the nineteenth-
century sideshow stage alongside another contemporaneous Chinese
performer, Afong Moy (alternatively spelled Ahfong...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 647–675.
Published: 01 December 2008
... culturally dependent upon Great Britain. In addition, sati itself becomes a dynamic theatrical sign of a variety of local and international concerns connected to Asian Indians, Native Americans, and the place of the United States in global politics and culture. It reflects, among other things, both American...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the institutional framing of diversity. The 2018 market season brought me an enviable dilemma: continue to teach eager students as a non-tenure-track temporary lecturer in an Asian American studies program or en-discipline in literature at a predominantly white liberal arts college as their first Asian Americanist...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 212–214.
Published: 01 March 2003
... and multilayered argument, which unfolds in
the juxtaposed spaces of Asian American studies, American cultural studies,
queer theory, and psychoanalytic discourse. Through this innovative constel-
lation of fields...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Multi-
culturalisms. By Wen Jin. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2012. xvii, 224 pp.
Cloth, $52.95; CD, $14.95.
As the fastest growing racial minority in the United States, the population of
Asian Americans continues to expand and diversify. Asian American literary
studies has experienced...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
...” and as a politically charged aesthetic whose staged magic circle “shapes the interactions in video games as neither Asian nor Asian American, but as an unrepresentable blend” (60). Though game studies scholarship traditionally uses the term magic circle to designate a space of performance and play, I prefer...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 859–862.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Kita Douglas Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 This trio of books turns our attention toward Asian American studies as a field that remains deeply concerned with processes of form and legibility. Each of these studies examines race as a shifting process of discursive...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 543–569.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., characters, and settings related to Asian American history and experiences.” This method of identification, after all, has been the de facto definition since minority art emerged as an institutional practice and field of study, from the activism and civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s: that Asian...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 461–463.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and memoir, the
idea of which has become a defense against any consideration of the politics
of international adoption, might be reread as far from a private production.
Eleanor Ty’s Unfastened is a literary study of Asian North American con-
temporary writing that directly addresses the historical...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
Published: 01 June 2011
... and memoir, the
idea of which has become a defense against any consideration of the politics
of international adoption, might be reread as far from a private production.
Eleanor Ty’s Unfastened is a literary study of Asian North American con-
temporary writing that directly addresses the historical...
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