Ideas of home
Subtitle: literature of Asian migration
By: Geoffrey Kain, contributing editor.
Contributors: Kain, Geoffrey.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.; Emigration and immigration in literature.; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.; Asian Americans in literature.; Immigrants in literature.; Home in literature.; Asia -- In literature.
Description: While there are a number of excellent works that focus on Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian British literature, most tend to deal exclusively with ethnicity; only occasionally, though inevitably, do they cross over into a direct exploration of topics and themes deriving from the immigrant experience and the subsequent quest for "home".

Ideas of Home, however, focuses on the specific theme in recent literature; it explores the many challenges to Asian immigrants' sense of self and their conceptions of home. As they emerge from the discussions presented in this collection, the experiences of leaving home and arriving in a new place - and the descriptions of them in literature - are ancient ones that demand self-redefinition and resolution before the "new places" can be sincerely embraced as "home."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.