Transforming Chinese American literature : a study of history, sexuality, and ethnicity / [electronic resource]
Chang, Joan Chiung-huei,1962-
New York : P. Lang,
c2000.
"Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature.
As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-196) and index.

"Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature.
As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--Jacket.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
American literature
Chinese Americans in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
Chinese Americans
American literature
Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Race in literature
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature