An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780521447904
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Science/Mathematics; History and criticism; Asian American authors; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; Intellectual life; American - Asian American; American - General; American literature--Asian American authors--; American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian American; Literary Criticism-American - General; American literature; Literacy; Asian Americans; Asian Americans in literature
First sentence: A survey of a literature typically begins with an attempt to point its origins, then proceeds to trace its "growth" (implying a maturational model of literary production).