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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 415–432.
Published: 01 September 2012
... is typicality, which claims to broaden the significance of what might seem merely particular. This definition of realism illuminates two pioneering works of Asian American literature. Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston, despite their many differences, both engage in the realist project of overcoming...
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Modern Language Quarterly 10335742.
Published: 15 March 2023
... of description transforms Asian American persons into things. wendy_lee@brown.edu Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 Asian American literature metafiction Ruth Ozeki detail Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Meta ction Wendy Allison Lee Abstract This essay examines...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., with Christopher Newfield and James Vernon, of “The Humanities and the Crisis of the Public University,” a special issue of Representations (2011). She is at work on a book tentatively titled Asian American Literature after 1968 . © 2012 by University of Washington 2012 This content is made freely...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 303–308.
Published: 01 September 1988
...,
1947-1966. Westport, Conn., and London: G'reenwood Press, Contributions
in Afro-American and African Studies, 115, 1988. xii + 213 pp. $37.95.
Cheung, King-Kok, and Stan Yogi. Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibli-
ography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1988. x...
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Modern Language Quarterly 10335724.
Published: 15 March 2023
... detail has been yoked to racial and Orientalizing projects. For example, Wendy Allison Lee points out that Asian American literature is often read as ethnographic, as a native informant s guide for the white reader. In such readings, the so-called ethnic detail (i.e., the translation of Chinese phrases...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (4): 416–422.
Published: 01 December 1982
... A., Jr. (editor). Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Na-
tive American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature.
With an introduction by Walter J. Ong. New York: Modern Language Associ-
ation of America, 1982.265 pp. $19.50, cloth; $9.50, paper.
Bell...
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Modern Language Quarterly 10335706.
Published: 15 March 2023
...) observes in her study of Asian American literature. Thus, although Garréta s and Morrison s texts may be read as descended from the formal experiments of modernism, or as belonging to the meta ctional conceits of postmodernism, they more forcefully return us to the problems of realism, putting pressure...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 129–131.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the
dystopic, populist fiction of writers like Jack London, Frank Norris, and John
Steinbeck. The “persistent symbolization of the permanent [Asian] alien” (6)
in American literature, both within and against the typical screed of (white)
workers’ rights, made for an agrarian populism often jarringly...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 115–118.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ontological impos-
sibility in the period of anti-Asian agitation, gave way to an aesthetic of “the
suffering (white) migrant,” whose representation in 1930s photography and
literature proved the urgency and inevitability of labor protest and capital-
ist reform in American culture. Beginning...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 132–135.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ontological impos-
sibility in the period of anti-Asian agitation, gave way to an aesthetic of “the
suffering (white) migrant,” whose representation in 1930s photography and
literature proved the urgency and inevitability of labor protest and capital-
ist reform in American culture. Beginning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 111–114.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ontological impos-
sibility in the period of anti-Asian agitation, gave way to an aesthetic of “the
suffering (white) migrant,” whose representation in 1930s photography and
literature proved the urgency and inevitability of labor protest and capital-
ist reform in American culture. Beginning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 119–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in the
dystopic, populist fiction of writers like Jack London, Frank Norris, and John
Steinbeck. The “persistent symbolization of the permanent [Asian] alien” (6)
in American literature, both within and against the typical screed of (white)
workers’ rights, made for an agrarian populism often jarringly...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 123–126.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ontological impos-
sibility in the period of anti-Asian agitation, gave way to an aesthetic of “the
suffering (white) migrant,” whose representation in 1930s photography and
literature proved the urgency and inevitability of labor protest and capital-
ist reform in American culture. Beginning...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (1): 126–128.
Published: 01 March 2007
... ontological impos-
sibility in the period of anti-Asian agitation, gave way to an aesthetic of “the
suffering (white) migrant,” whose representation in 1930s photography and
literature proved the urgency and inevitability of labor protest and capital-
ist reform in American culture. Beginning...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (3): 305–331.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to recognize that for Dover brown bridged African Americans and South Asians. “I thought,” McKay explained to Cowl, “the title was a euphemism to flatter the American mulatto, who use[s] black and Negro in Literature, but in practice [tries] hard to run away from them.” 8 He delivered an even more direct...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 223–226.
Published: 01 June 2022
... resources and markets. If economic interests distinguished American from Soviet agency, these differences raise questions about the superpowers’ cultural activities in the region. There seems to have been no American equivalent to the large-scale translation and dissemination of African literature...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2007) 68 (2): 145–171.
Published: 01 June 2007
... of
two extra-European events: a cyclical downturn in Asian trade, which
brought prices within outsiders’ reach, and the extraction of silver from
Europe’s American colonies. “Without that silver,” says Frank,
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (2): 165–190.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson revived the tradition of “letters from the Orient” with an anonymous pamphlet published in London, Letters from John Chinaman (1901; the American edition, with a separate introduction, was titled Letters from a Chinese Official: Being an Eastern View of Western Civilization...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2012) 73 (3): 395–414.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., in contrast to the brutal
dictatorship of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) after the
end of the Paci c War. The historical theater of inter- Asian coloniza-
tion, hierarchization, and exploitation is compounded by the rise of
the United...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (4): 403–425.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., Internatsional’naia literatura , served as the mother ship for counterparts in English ( International Literature ), French, German, and for a time Spanish and Chinese. 3 In these journals contemporary literature from other countries was published, primarily European and North American but also some Asian...
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