Title Reading Asian American Literature : from necessity to extravagance.

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Summary	A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau.
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Subject	American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Asian American authors.
	Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
	Asian Americans.
	Ethnic relations in literature.
	Ethnic relations in literature.
	Asian Americans in literature.
	Asian Americans in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia. Reading Asian American Literature : From Necessity to Extravagance. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691015415
ISBN	9781400821068 (electronic book)
	1400821061 (electronic book)