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Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature » Read Now
by Yunte Huang. 209 pgs.

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"Yunte Huang has produced a fascinating study of what he calls 'textual travelling, ' which is to say, the transformation of poetic texts (in this case Chinese ones) at the hands of American scholars, editors, translators, and especially poets. . . . This brave and highly original study is sure to...
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"Yunte Huang has produced a fascinating study of what he calls 'textual travelling, ' which is to say, the transformation of poetic texts (in this case Chinese ones) at the hands of American scholars, editors, translators, and especially poets. . . . This brave and highly original study is sure to raise controversy."--Marjorie Perloff, author of "Wittgenstein's Ladder"
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Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers » Read Now
by Mary E. Young. 158 pgs.

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Young compares and contrasts the histories of African-American and Chinese-American women, then analyzes each group's response to the stereotyped images that have become a part of American cultural history. Her vehicle for this study is fiction from writers as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper...
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Young compares and contrasts the histories of African-American and Chinese-American women, then analyzes each group's response to the stereotyped images that have become a part of American cultural history. Her vehicle for this study is fiction from writers as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper, William Wells Brown, Ambrose Bierce, and Frank Chin, and from Euro-American, African-American, and Chinese-American writers who created the dominant stereotypes. Young examines the response to these stereotypes in the writings of key African and Chinese-American women writers such as Linda Brent, Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Sui Sin Far, Chang Hua, and Amy Tan.
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New Immigrant Literatures in the United States: A Sourcebook to Our Multicultural Literary Heritage (Chap. 3 "Chinese-American Literature") » Read Now
by Alpana Sharma Knippling. 390 pgs.

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During the last 50 years, writers from immigrant groups have greatly enriched American literature. This reference overviews immigrant literatures in the United States since World War II. Previously underrepresented immigrant literatures, such as Pakistani-American, Korean-American, and...
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During the last 50 years, writers from immigrant groups have greatly enriched American literature. This reference overviews immigrant literatures in the United States since World War II. Previously underrepresented immigrant literatures, such as Pakistani-American, Korean-American, and Mexican-American literatures, are given special attention, and contributors discuss women's writing whenever possible. Each chapter provides a thorough historical and critical discussion and extensive bibliographical information.
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Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Chap. 2 "Can Maxine Hong Kingston Speak? The Contingency of The Woman Warrior") » Read Now
by David Leiwei Li. 268 pgs.

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Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the...
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Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.
The author is preoccupied with how the sense of the nation is disseminated through the practice of reading and writing, and he argues that Asian American literature is a productive discursive negotiation of the contemporary contradiction in American citizenship. By analyzing the textual strategies with which literary Asian America is represented, the book shows how the "fictive ethnicity" of the nation continues to exert its regulatory power and suggests how we can work toward a radical American democratic consent.
Through nuanced readings of exemplary texts, the author delineates how Asian American literary production has become a site for the creation of Asian American subjects and community. The texts range from Kingston's enigmatic Tripmaster Monkey to the seductive cunning of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club; from Bharati Mukherjee's romantic Jasmine to the geocultural ambivalence of David Mure's Turning Japanese; and from the transvestic subversion of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to the transpirational tropes of David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love.
Imagining the Nation integrates a fine appreciation of the formal features of Asian American literature with the conflict andconvergence among different reading communities and the dilemma of ethnic intellectuals caught in the process of their institutionalization. By articulating Asian American structures of feeling across the nexus of East and Wes
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Writing the Asian American Artist: Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, in MELUS » Read Now
by Irma Maini. 22 pgs.

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Anonymity and Self-Laceration in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Immigrant Writing, in MELUS » Read Now
by Cynthia F. Wong. 16 pgs.

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Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Part Two "Constructing Chinese American Ethnicity") » Read Now
by Patricia P. Chu. 244 pgs.

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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian...
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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian American writers have adapted it to express their troubled and unstable position in the United States. By aligning themselves with U.S. democratic ideals while also questioning the historical realities of exclusion, internment, and discrimination, Asian American authors, contends Chu, do two kinds of ideological work: they claim Americanness for Asian Americans, and they create accounts of Asian ethnicity that deploy their specific cultures and histories to challenge established notions of Americanness.
Chu further demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and cultural representation. While offering fresh perspectives on the well-known writings -- both fiction and memoir -- of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Frank Chin, and David Mura, Assimilating Asians also provides new insight into the work of less recognized but nevertheless important writers like Carlos Bulosan, Edith Eaton, Younghill Kang, Milton Murayama, and John Okada. As she explores this expansive range of texts -- published over the course of the last century by authors of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian origin or descent -- Chu is able to illuminate her argument by linking it to key historical and cultural events.
Assimilating Asians makes animportant contribution to the fields of Asian American, American, and women's studies. Scholars of Asian American literature and culture, as well as of ethnicity and assimilation, will find particular interest and value in this
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Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, in MELUS » Read Now
by Patricia L. Hamilton. 21 pgs.

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MELUS Interview: Gish Jen, in MELUS » Read Now
by Yuko Matsukawa. 10 pgs.

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The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (Chap. Two "Gish Jen and the Gendered Codes of Americanness") » Read Now
by Rachel C. Lee. 205 pgs.

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""The Americas of Asian American Literature" is a critique of ideology and an interrogation of political power arrangements as they shift in different historical contexts. Rachel Lee looks at the ideological implications of various ways of reading literature that foreground some issues and suppress...
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""The Americas of Asian American Literature" is a critique of ideology and an interrogation of political power arrangements as they shift in different historical contexts. Rachel Lee looks at the ideological implications of various ways of reading literature that foreground some issues and suppress others. With its richly nuanced readings of how various kinds of racialized gendering shape both writing and reading across space and time, Rachel Lee's breakthrough book enriches both Asian American cultural critique and feminist inquiry, suggesting to us how much can be gained if we more clearly understand the inseparability of representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality."--Elaine H. Kim, University of California, author of "Asian American Literature"
"Rachel Lee has opened an important new chapter in the study of Asian American literature. Her trans-Pacific and trans-hemispheric conception of the 'Americas' of Asian American culture, combined with her scrupulous theorizing of gender, provides a fresh, original approach to the field. In doing so, she also maps out the criticism of the future and boldly enlarges the meaning of American literature."--Eric Sundquist, Northwestern University
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Engendering Genre: Gender and Nationalism in 'China Men' and 'The Woman Warrior,' MELUS » Read Now
by Leilani Nishime. 16 pgs.

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An Impossible Necessity: Translation and the Recreation of Linguistic and Cultural Identities in Contemporary Chinese American Literature, in Criticism » Read Now
by Martha J. Cutter. 28 pgs.

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Otherness and Transformation in 'Eat a Bowl of Tea' and 'Crossings,' in MELUS » Read Now
by Shu-Yan Li. 12 pgs.

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Finding the Way: Chuang Hua's 'Crossings' and Chinese Literary Tradition, in MELUS » Read Now
by Lesley Chin Douglass. 13 pgs.

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Finding the Way: Chuang Hua's 'Crossings' and Chinese Literary Tradition, in MELUS » Read Now
by Lesley Chin Douglass. 13 pgs.

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Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (Chap. Two "Orientalism in Chinese American Discourse: Body and Pidgin") » Read Now
by Sheng-Mei Ma. 188 pgs.

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