Contesting Genres In Contemporary Asian American Fiction

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This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : B. Huang
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2010-12-12
File : 280 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230117327


Asian American Literature In Transition 1996 2020 Volume 4

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This volume examines the concerns - political, literary, and identity-based - of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

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Genre : History
Author : Betsy Huang
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Release : 2021-06-17
File : 417 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108830843


Teaching Asian North American Texts

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From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Asian North American literature and media encompass a long history and a diverse variety of genres and aesthetic approaches. The essays in this volume provide context for understanding the history of Asian immigrants to the United States and Canada and the experiences of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Contributors address historical contexts, from the early enactment of Asian exclusion laws to the xenophobia following 9/11, and provide tools for textual analysis. The essays explore conventionally literary texts, genres such as mystery and speculative fiction, historical documents and legal texts, and visual media including films, photography, and graphic novels, emphasizing the ways that creators have crossed boundaries of genre and produced innovative new forms.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jennifer Ho
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release : 2022-07-28
File : 326 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781603295659


The Ghosts Within

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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.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Janna Odabas
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Release : 2018-11-30
File : 265 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783839444498


The Cambridge Companion To Race And American Literature

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A comprehensive study of how American racial history and culture have shaped, and have been shaped by, American literature.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2024-06-30
File : 319 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781108835657


The Arresting Eye

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In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans not only in detective fiction (from Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan to the works of Pauline Hopkins) but also in narratives centered on detection itself (such as Winnifred Eaton’s rhetoric of undetection in her Japanese romances). In explicating the literary depictions of race-detection anxiety, Huh demonstrates how cultural, legal, and scientific discourses across diverse racial groups were also struggling with demands for racial decipherability. Anxieties of detection and undetection, she concludes, are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on each other's construction and formation in American history and culture.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jinny Huh
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Release : 2015-05-04
File : 273 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813937038


Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture

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The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. It looks at the blogs of Korean, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese Americans who were adopted as children by white American families and have conflicted feelings about their “honorary white” status. And it discusses Tiger Woods, the most famous mixed-race Asian American, whose description of himself as “Cablinasian”—reflecting his background as Black, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American—perfectly captures the ambiguity of racial classifications. Race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties. Jennifer Ho demonstrates in Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.

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Genre : History
Author : Jennifer Ann Ho
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Release : 2015-05-12
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780813570716


The Cambridge Companion To American Horror

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Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2022-08-04
File : 221 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781316513002


The Asian Family In Literature And Film

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Author : Bernard Wilson
Publisher : Springer Nature
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File : 506 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789819722273


Race And Utopian Desire In American Literature And Society

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Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order. In a time when white supremacy is reasserting itself in the US and around the world, there is a growing need to understand the vital relationship between race and utopia as a resource for resistance. Utopian literature opens up that relationship by envisioning and negotiating the prospect of a better future while acknowledging the brutal past. The collection fills a critical gap in both literary studies, which has largely ignored the issue of race and utopia, and utopian studies, which has said too little about race.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Patricia Ventura
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2019-10-12
File : 327 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030194703