Assimilating Asians [electronic resource] : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America /
Chu, Patricia P.
Pease, Donald E., editor.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press,
2000.
This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture.
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This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
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."
Description based on print version record.
American literature
American literature
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Asian American women
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Women and literature
Asian American women in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Authorship
Bildungsromans, American