Race & resistance
Subtitle: literature & politics in Asian America
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Asian Americans in literature
Other titles: Race and resistance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ONE On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 33; title: TWO Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 61; title: THREE The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 87; title: FOUR Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 107; title: FIVE Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel 125; title: Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects 143.