Asian North American identities : beyond the hyphen

Asian North American identities : beyond the hyphen / edited by Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht.

The nine essays in Asian North American Identities explore how Asian North Americans are no longer caught between worlds of the old and the new, the east and the west, and the south and the north. Moving beyond national and diasporic models of ethnic identity to focus on the individual feelings and...

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Other Authors: Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-, Goellnicht, Donald C., 1953-2019
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Asians > Canada > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
American literature > Asian American authors
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Asians > Intellectual life
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Group identity in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Race in literature
Canada
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Affect-identity : the emotions of assimilation, multiraciality, and Asian American subjectivity / Jeffrey J. Santa Ana
  • "I'm blackanese" : buddy-cop films, rush hour, and Asian American and African American cross-racial identification / LeiLani Nishime
  • "To hide her true self" : sentimentality and the search for an intersubjective self in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Patricia Chu
  • Identities in process : the experimental poetry of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Myung Mi Kim / Jeannie Chiu
  • Asian America is in the heartland : performing Korean adoptee experience / Josephine Lee
  • "A task of reclamation" : subjectivity, self-representation, and textual formulation in Sara Suleri's Meatless days / Roco G. Davis
  • The transnational imagination : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange / Caroline Rody
  • At the edge of a shattered mirror, community? / Karlyn Koh
  • Claiming postcolonial America : the hybrid Asian-American performances of Tseng Kwong chi / Malini Johar Schueller.

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