The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives / / Eleanor Ty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ty, Eleanor,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In var...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART I: VISUALITY, REPRESENTATION, AND THE GAZE
• 1. Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children
• 2. A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
• 3. Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness
• PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS THROUGH THE SENSUAL
• 4. To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces
• 5. 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
• 6. 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
• PART III: INVISIBLE MINORITIES IN ASIAN AMERICA
• 7. 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
• 8. 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms
• 9. 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country
• Afterword
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index