The semblance of identity
Subtitle: aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature
By: Christopher Lee
Series: Asian America; Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780804778701
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Asian Americans in literature; Literature; Aesthetics; Asian American authors; Ethnicity in literature; History and criticism; American literature
Description: The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. This book argues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The strange smell of truth : ethnicity, translation, and realism in the Cold War writings of Eileen Chang; title: The ironic temporalities of cultural nationalism; title: Sound, subjectivity, and the materiality of narrative; title: Form giving and the remains of identity in A gesture life; title: Semblance, shame, and the work of comparison; title: Conclusion : the difference Asian America makes.