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1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Theorizing Gendered Constructions of Ethnic and National Collectivity -- To Enjoy Being a Girl: Sexuality and Partial Citizenship -- Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?: Incorporating Racial Difference Through Feminist Narrative -- Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization: Le Ly Hayslip's Bad (Girl) Karma and the Art of Neutrality -- Gendered Subject of Human Rights: Domestic Infidelity in Irrawaddy Tango and The Scent of the Gods -- Afterword: Multiplying Loyalties. |
| Summary |
Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and pol. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Asian American authors. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Asian American women -- Intellectual life.
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Asian American women -- Intellectual life. |
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Asian American women. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Feminism and literature. |
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United States. |
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature. |
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Asian American women in literature.
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Asian American women in literature. |
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bow, Leslie, 1962- Betrayal and other acts of subversion. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 069107092X (DLC) 00058488 (OCoLC)44592609 |
| ISBN |
9781400824144 (electronic book) |
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1400824141 (electronic book) |
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1400814030 (electronic book) |
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9781400814039 (electronic book) |
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069107092X |
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9780691070926 |
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0691070938 |
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9780691070933 |
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