Title: Transforming Chinese American Literature
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.
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism, Ethnicity in literature, Race in literature, Chinese American authors, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Chinese Americans in literature, Chinese Americans