Title: The semblance of identity
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.
Subjects: Asian Americans in literature, Literature, Aesthetics, Asian American authors, Ethnicity in literature, History and criticism, American literature, American literature, asian american authors, history and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Literature, aesthetics
Time periods: 20th century