Filthy fictions
Subtitle: Asian American literature by women
By: Monica Chiu.
Series: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Asian American women -- Intellectual life; Asian American women in literature; Asian Americans in literature; Body, Human, in literature; Hygiene in literature; Women in literature
Description: "Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings of "Asian Americans" and "dirt". Crossing disciplinary and institutional boundaries, Filthy Fictions also questions the very ground upon which these arguments are founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, Monica Chiu analyzes critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies based on the topics of identity (re)production and transnational representation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : pejorative matter; title: Abjection, displacement, and psychological dissonance in Chuang Hua's Crossings; title: Ginu Kamani's Crass, classed, and incurable female bodies; title: Animals and systems of dirt in the novels of Lois-Ann Yamanaka; title: Inside the meat machine : food, filth, and (in)fertility in Ruth Ozeki's My year of meats; title: Conclusion : filth and Asian American literary critique.