The Ghosts Within : : Literary Imaginations of Asian America / / Janna Odabas.
The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost c...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lettre
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. “risk the violence of reading the ghost” – Theoretical Reflections on Ghost Figures -- 2. Postcolonial Melodramatic Ghost Figures: Signs of Dis-ease in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Behold the Many -- 3. Traditions of Haunting: The Narration of a Ghostly Self and a Family’s Ghosts in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother -- 4. Renegotiating a Global Asian America: The Ghost in Global Genre Fiction by Amitav Ghosh, Amy Tan, and Ed Lin -- Conclusion -- Works Cited |
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Summary: | The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783839444498 9783110766677 9783110719550 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604184 9783110603187 9783110661545 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783839444498?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Janna Odabas. |