Reading Asian American Literature : : From Necessity to Extravagance / / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong.
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing b...
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Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Reading Asian American Literature : From Necessity to Extravagance / Sau-ling Cynthia Wong. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1993] ©1993 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing an Asian American Textual Coalition -- Chapter One. Big Eaters, Treat Lovers, "Food Prostitutes," "Food Pornographers," and Doughnut Makers -- Chapter Two. Encounters with the Racial Shadow -- Chapter Three. The Politics of Mobility -- Chapter Four. The Asian American Homo Ludens: Work, Play, and Art -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Wong does so by establishing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature through the study of four motifs--food and eating, the Doppelg,nger figure, mobility, and play--in their multiple sociohistorical contexts. Occurring across ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries, these motifs resonate with each other in distinctly Asian American patterns that universalistic theories cannot uncover. Two rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," further unify this original, wide-ranging investigation. Authors studied include Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi. 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 30. Aug 2021) American literature Asian American authors History and criticism. Asian Americans in literature. Asian Americans Intellectual life. Ethnic relations in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package 9783110649680 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691015415 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400821068 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400821068 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400821068.jpg |
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