Narrating Nationalisms
Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 1998
225 pages
978-0-19-535486-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-WWII Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian American literary texts that simultaneously registers their rich specificity and relatedness to works before and after.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
12/1998
OUP India
Unfortunately, price unknown
Available (delivery time upon request)
Book
10/1998
Oxford University Press Inc
€210.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. History, Entanglement, and Negotiated Change
- 2. Writing the Novel, Narrating Discontents: Race and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy
- 3. Realist Intervention and the Return of the Repressed: Reading Class, Gender, and Culture in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea
- 4. Performing the Margins: Ethics and the Poetics of Frank Chin's Theatrical Discourse
- 5. Maxine Hong Kingston's Remapping of Asian American Historical Imagination in China Men
- 6. Critical Negotiations: Issues in Asian American Cultural Studies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
