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Author Lee, Christopher (Christopher Ming), 1978-

Title The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature / Christopher Lee.

Publication Info. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 191 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Asian America
Asian America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The strange smell of truth : ethnicity, translation, and realism in the Cold War writings of Eileen Chang -- The ironic temporalities of cultural nationalism -- Sound and the subject in The woman warrior and Tripmaster monkey -- Form giving and the remains of identity in A gesture life -- Semblance, shame, and the work of comparison -- Conclusion : the difference Asian America makes.
Summary The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. This book argues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity.
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Subject American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Asian American authors.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Literature -- Aesthetics.
Literature -- Aesthetics.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Lee, Christopher (Christopher Ming), 1978- Semblance of identity. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011036782
ISBN 9780804783705 (electronic book)
0804783705 (electronic book)
0804778701
9780804778701