Transforming Chinese American Literature
Subtitle: A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: August 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780820440965
Subjects: American literature; Chinese American authors; Chinese Americans; Chinese Americans in literature; History and criticism; Intellectual life; Literature: Classics
Description: "Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature.

As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--BOOK JACKET.