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Unsettling Ethnic Detail in Asian American Metafiction

Wendy Allison Lee
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 239–259.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335742
Published: 01 June 2023
... of how “exotic” details in Asian American fiction turn Asian American characters and people into objects of entertainment and edification for predominantly white readerships. Yet works of Asian American metafiction such as Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior , Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats , and Nam...
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To Detail a Dollhouse

Paul K. Saint-Amour
Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (2): 261–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-10335679
Published: 01 June 2023
... attention precisely because they scramble the social codes of this scalar mediation. Lee’s essay notes how “minor details” in the metafictions of Ruth Ozeki and Nam Le draw critical attention to the minoritizing operations of ethnic details with which Asian American writers are expected to outfit their work...
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