The Ghosts Within : : Literary Imaginations of Asian America / / Janna Odabas.

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• VerfasserIn: Odabas, Janna,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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