Title: Chinese American literature since the 1850s /
Authors: Yin, Xiao-huang.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: American literature Chinese American authors History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; American literature Chinese influences.; Chinese Americans Intellectual life.; Chinese Americans in literature.
Abstract: "Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This volume, shows how change and continuity in the Chinese American experience are reflected in the writings of immigrants from China and their descendants in the United States."
Contents: Plea and protest: voices of early Chinese immigrants -- Writings of the "cultivated Chinese": improving the image to win -- Sympathy and acceptance -- The voice of a Eurasian: Sui Sin Far and her writings -- Seeking a place in American life: autobiographical writings of second-generation Chinese -- What's in a name: Chinese-language literature in America -- Immigration blues: themes and subject matter in Chinese-language -- Literature since the 1960s -- Multiple voices and the "war of words": Chinese American literature -- In the contemporary era -- Epilogue -- English-Chinese glossary -- English-Chinese bibliography -- Selected bibliography -- Index.