Narrating nationalisms : ideology and form in Asian American literature

Narrating nationalisms : ideology and form in Asian American literature / Jinqi Ling.

In Narrating Nationalisms, Jinqi Ling brings fresh perspectives to ongoing debates over the nature of Asian American literary production from the 1950s through 1980. He offers provocative interpretations of five formative texts demonstrating how these works contribute to the ongoing dialogue around...

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Main Author: Ling, Jinqi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
Chin, Frank > Criticism and interpretation.
Kingston, Maxine Hong > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Influence.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Literary form.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. History, Entanglement, and Negotiated Change
  • 2. Writing the Novel, Narrating Discontents: Race and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy
  • 3. Realist Intervention and the Return of the Repressed: Reading Class, Gender, and Culture in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea
  • 4. Performing the Margins: Ethics and the Poetics of Frank Chin's Theatrical Discourse
  • 5. Maxine Hong Kingston's Remapping of Asian American Historical Imagination in China Men
  • 6. Critical Negotiations: Issues in Asian American Cultural Studies.

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