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Chu, Patricia P., author.

Title Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return / Patricia P. Chu.

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Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, 2019.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (277 pages).
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Series	Asian American history & culture
	Asian American history and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity -- Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children -- Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain -- "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
	Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
	Memory in literature.
	Melancholy in literature.
	Homeland in literature.
	Return in literature.
	Emigration and immigration in literature.
	Asian Americans in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Title	Migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return
	Asian American narratives of return
Other Form:	Print version: Chu, Patricia P. Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return. Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo : Temple University Press, 2019 277 pages Asian American history and culture. 9781439902257 (DLC) 2018034177
ISBN	9781439902257
	9781439902271 (electronic bk.)