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Author Chu, Patricia P.

Title Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America / Patricia P. Chu.

Publication Info. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.

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Description x, 241 pages ; 25 cm.
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Contents Introduction: "a city of words" -- America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada -- Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura -- Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee -- "That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club -- Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition -- Coda: "What we should become, what we were".
Subject American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Asian American authors.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Women and literature -- United States.
Women and literature.
United States.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Authorship -- Sex differences.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
ISBN 0822324652 paper alkaline paper
082232430X cloth alkaline paper