Asian American Literary Studies / / Guiyou Huang.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620135);This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Introducing Ethnic Studies : IES
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Series Editor's Foreword
- Introduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American Literary Studies
- Section I: Perspectives on Literature and History
- Chapter 1 Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation
- Chapter 2 The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies
- Chapter 3 Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango
- Section II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation
- Chapter 4 Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies
- Chapter 5 Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination
- Chapter 6 Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel
- Chapter 7 Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers
- Section III: Perspectives on Language and Culture
- Chapter 8 "I Love My India": Indian American Students Performing Identity and Creating Culture on Stage
- Chapter 9 Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Literature of Hawai'i
- Chapter 10 Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama
- Notes on the Editor and Contributors
- Index