Transnational, national, and personal voices
Subtitle: new perspectives on Asian American and Asian diasporic women writers
By: Begoña Simal, Elisabetta Marino (eds.)
Contributors: Simal González, Begoña; Marino, Elisabetta
Series: Contributions to Asian American literary studies -- v. 3
Publisher: Lit; Distributed in North America by Transaction
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Münster; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9783825882785
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Asian diaspora
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: value: Introduction : Approaching different literary voices in Asian America and the Asian diaspora / Begoña Simal and Elisabetta Marino; value: Talking-story : reading The woman warrior and rearticulating American identities / Theresa M. Tensuan; value: Getting close to the screen of exile : visualizing and resisting the national mother tongue in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée / Kimberly Lamm; value: Orientalist fantasy and desire in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Su-lin Yu; value: A journey into the past : literary archaeology in Disappearing Moon Café and China men / Shu-jiang Lu; value: For east, look north : cross-border comparisons and the future of North American Asian American studies / Maggie Ann Bowers; value: The Philippine diaspora, hunger and re-imagining community : an overview of works by Filipina and Filipina American writers / Marie-Therese Sulit; value: "Moving selves" : immigration and transnationalism in Gish Jen and Chitra Divakaruni / Begoña Simal; value: Biology and identity : miscegenation in recent Chinese-North American fiction / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez and Sonia Villegas-López; value: Still life with rice : narrative strategies of empowerment and agency / Jennifer George-Palilonis; value: Metaphors of hunger and satiety in Patricia Chao's Monkey king and Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger / Patrycja Kurjatto-Renard; value: Consequential bodies : the use of the body in Sara Suleri's Meatless days / Patricia Burns; value: On being diasporic : an interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim