Begin Here : : Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood / / Rocio G. Davis.
An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the constru...
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Davis, Rocio G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Begin Here : Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood / Rocio G. Davis. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. To Begin Here -- Chapter 2. The Asian Childhood -- Chapter 3. Cultural Revolutions and Takeovers -- Chapter 4. The Liminal Childhood -- Chapter 5. Citizens or Denizens -- Chapter 6. In North America -- Chapter 7. The Childhood for Children -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative potential of national experiences. This understanding influences theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative techniques and genre and raising complex questions about self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Asian American children Biography History and criticism. Asian Americans Biography History and criticism. Asians Canada Biography History and criticism. Children United States Biography History and criticism. HISTORY / Asia / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824830922 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861599 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824861599 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824861599/original |
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