Title: Contesting genres in contemporary Asian American fiction
Description: This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.
Subjects: Asian American authors, Fiction genres, History and criticism, Asian Americans in literature, American fiction, American literature, asian american authors, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General