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Overview
This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Chang-Rae Lee and Amitav Ghosh, and situates them in a range of literary-cultural contexts.
The focus of the book is on twentieth-century writing, particularly from the 1970s onwards, but it also traces the historical development of Asian American literature and discusses important earlier writers. Four central themes in Asian American culture are covered: beginning Asian American literature; ambassadorial literature; culture wars; and heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity. Each chapter offers a broad discussion of writers, concepts and approaches with case studies of key texts. Particular emphasis is placed on the critical reception of these writers, as they contribute to major debates in and around Asian American Studies. Works by Asian American writers are considered in relation to transatlantic literature, postcolonial theory, feminism and postmodernism.
Key features
*The first readily available introductory guide to Asian American literature.
*Discusses a representative range of Asian American literature, providing a sense of the diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing.
*Links close reading of key texts with critical and theoretical approaches to Asian American literature.
*Encourages reflection on questions of literary value, canonicity and the scope and purpose of literary studies.
Edinburgh University Press
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Bella Adams is lecturer in English at Liverpool Hope University College. author of Amy Tan, Contemporary World Writers Series (Manchester University Press, 2004).
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Table of Contents
Series Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
Chronology ix
Introduction 1
Some Thoughts on Ethnicity and Writing 1
A History of Asian American Literature 7
Asian American Canon Formation 17
About this Book 20
American Ways of Looking, 1880s-1920s 26
Contexts and Intertexts 26
Yan Phou Lee, When I Was a Boy in China (1887) 34
Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected Short Stories (1900-15) 37
Conclusion 44
We are America, 1930s-50s 50
Contexts and Intertexts 50
Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949) 55
Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51) 61
Conclusion 67
Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960s-70s 72
Contexts and Intertexts 72
Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) 76
Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988) 80
Maxine Hong Kingston, TheWoman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980) 86
Conclusion 101
Between Worlds, the 1980s 107
Contexts and Intertexts 107
Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) 110
Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988) 116
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989) 121
Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983) 128
Conclusion 137
Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990s 143
Contexts and Intertexts 143
Refugee Literatures 146
Lan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997) 149
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990) 155
Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998) 161
Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995) 167
Conclusion 171
Conclusion 177
Student Resources 195
Glossary 195
Selected Electronic Resources 200
Guide to Further Reading 204
Index 216