Chinese American Literature without Borders

Gender, Genre, and Form
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-68701-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders.   

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheung, King-Kok

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I   Gender.- (S)wordswoman versus (S)wordsman: Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin.- Manhood Besieged: Gus Lee and David Wong Louie.- Masculine Mystique: Xu Zhimo???, Younghill Kang, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, and Anchee Min.- Art, Spirituality, and Ren or the Ethic of Care:Shawn Wong, Li-young Lee, and Russell C. Leong.- Part II Genre and Form.- In(ter)dependence in Chinese / American Life-Writing: Liang Qichao ???, Hu Shi??, Shen Congwen???, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Poy Lee, and Ruthanne Lum McCunn.- “Theorizing in Narrative Form”: Bing Xin??.- (Im)migrant Writing, Moving Homelands: Ha Jin ??.- Slanted Allusions: Marilyn Chin and Russell C. Leong.- Coda.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is author of Articulate Silences and editor of Words Matter; An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature; "Seventeen Syllables"; Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography; and coeditor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.