Recontextualizing Asian American domesticity
Subtitle: from Madame Butterfly to My American wife
By: Seung Ah Oh.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780739122785
Subjects: American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; Asian Americans in literature; Domestic relations in literature; Immigrants in literature
Description: "From the Eaton sisters' literary works at the turn of the previous century to Gish Jen's 2004 novel The Love Wife, Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity explores the ways in which the trope of American domesticity is experimented, resisted, and reinvented in Asian American women's literature. In order to contextualize Asian American women's writing within the terrain of American cultural and literary history, this book considers how the trope of domesticity is deployed in constructing Asian American women's subjectivity, especially through the tension and dynamic between Asian and white American womanhood."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.