Contesting genres in contemporary Asian American fiction
By: Betsy Huang
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780230108318
Subjects: Asian American authors; Fiction genres; History and criticism; Asian Americans in literature; American fiction
Description: This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Generic sui generis : on Asian American immigrant fiction; title: Recriminations : on Asian American crime fiction; title: Reorientations : on Asian American science fiction.