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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| 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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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