Inhuman citizenship : traumatic enjoyment and Asian American literature

Inhuman citizenship : traumatic enjoyment and Asian American literature / Juliana Chang.

"In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--A Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chang, Juliana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
1900-2099
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
American literature
American literature > Asian American authors
Asian Americans in literature
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Melancholy in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Inhuman Citizenship
  • 1. Melancholic Citizenship: The Living Dead and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone
  • 2. Shameful Citizenship: Animal Jouissance and Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son
  • 3. Romantic Citizenship: Immigrant-Nation Romance, the Antifetish, and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker
  • 4. Perverse Citizenship: The Death Drive and Suki Kim's The Interpreter.

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