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1 online resource (ix, 188 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ideology and the Representation of Immigrant 1 -- Part 1. Representation of the Asian Other -- Part 2. Immigrant Subjectivity through Eroticism -- Part 3. Immigrant Self-Representation. |
| Summary |
This book opens with an interrogation of the representation of immigrants in Asian American and, to a lesser extent, Asian Diaspora literatures, including works by such writers as Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, and Bharati Mukherjee. Immigrant subjectivities in these texts are frequently subsumed in the urgent need to self-fashion an Asian American identity, and take the peculiar form of "immigrant schizophrenic." Ma also explores how the drive to "claim America" manifests itself as an eroticization of white bodies in male immigrant and minority writers. He then directs his attention to immigrant self-representation from the unique yet representative positionality of Taiwanese immigrants, as found in overseas student literature and in the recent films of Ang Lee. With a contrapuntal reading of the portrayal of immigrants in Asian American and Asian Diaspora literatures, this book maps out a terrain largely uncharted by scholars of various disciplines. |
| 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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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Asians -- Foreign countries -- Intellectual life.
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Asians. |
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Foreign countries. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Emigration and immigration in literature.
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Emigration and immigration in literature. |
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans in literature. |
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature. |
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Immigrant subjectivities |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ma, Sheng-mei. Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998 0791438295 (DLC) 97030819 (OCoLC)37398010 |
| ISBN |
0585090335 (electronic book) |
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9780585090337 (electronic book) |
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0791438295 |
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0791438309 |
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