Imagining the Nation
Subtitle: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Asian America)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: September 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780804734004
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; History and criticism; Asian American Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; Intellectual life; American - Asian American; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian American; American literature; Asian American authors; Asian Americans; History; Literature and society; United States
First sentence: The civil rights movement of the 1960s in general and the third world strikes in 1968 at San Francisco State University in particular made urgent the overwhelming question of what is an "Asian American" amid the clamor for national redefinition.