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1 online resource (305 pages) |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies |
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Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing -- |
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Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocio G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- editor.
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Najmi, Samina, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Form and transformation in Asian American literature. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2005] 296 pages ; 23 cm. The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies 9780295985046 |
| ISBN |
0295985046 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780295985046 |
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9780295802305 (electronic bk.) |
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