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