| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 212 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index. |
| Summary |
This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of postwar Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian American literary texts that simultaneously registers their rich specificity and relatedness to works before and after. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
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American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Asian American authors. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Influence.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Asian Americans. |
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature. |
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Literary form.
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Literary form. |
| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ling, Jinqi. Narrating nationalisms. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97034558 |
| ISBN |
1423741021 (electronic book) |
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9781423741022 (electronic book) |
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1602561699 |
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9781602561694 |
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9780195111163 (cloth) |
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0195111168 (cloth) |
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9780195111170 (paperback) |
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0195111176 (paperback) |
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128045346X |
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9781280453465 |
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0195111168 (cloth) |
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0195111176 (paperback) |
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