| Description |
xvii, 246 pages ; 23 cm. |
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| Series |
American ethnic and cultural studies |
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American ethnic and cultural studies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
"A McLellan Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index. |
| Contents |
Literary Chinatown: dynamics of race and reading -- What is an ethnic author? -- The politics of ethnic authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the banquet table -- Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and gold -- Changing signifiers and changing horizons: baseball in three stories by David Wong Louie -- Change and the playful reader: reading Shawn Wong's American Knees -- Beyond multicultural: cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen. |
| Summary |
"With attentive readings not only of literary texts but also of book reviews and publishers' marketing materials, Partridge enables us to chart and to understand the changes in Chinese American literature and its reception in the past fifty years. In doing so, he threads a new path forward in the discussion of race and ethnicity in America, one that encompasses the historical valence of multiculturalism and the cross-fertilizing perspectives of postmodern hybridity theory while remaining cognizant of the persistence of racist and racialized thinking in contemporary American society. Beyond Literary Chinatown demonstrates how Chinese American literature has come to negotiate the tensions between the expression of ethnic identity and a resistance to racialization."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Partridge, Jeffrey F.L. Beyond literary Chinatown. Seattle : University of Washington Press, Ã2007 (OCoLC)647069694 |
| ISBN |
9780295987064 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb07809 hdl |
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