Chu / Pease Assimilating Asians

Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8135-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chu, Patricia P.

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknoweldgments ix

Introduction: "A City of Words" 1

ONE. Myths of Americanization

1 America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada 27

2 Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura 64

3 Womens' Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee 90

TWO/ Constructing Chinese American Ethinicity

4 "That Was China, That Was Their Fate": Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy Luck Club 141

5 Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition 169

CODA. "What We Should Becomoe, What We Were" 188

Notes 191

Bibliography 217

Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.