Lee The Americas of Asian American Literature

Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2320-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, Rachel C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

INTRODUCTION 3

CHAPTER ONE Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America 17

CHAPTER TWO Gish Jen and the Gendered Codes of Americanness 44

CHAPTER THREE Transversing Nationalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters 73

CHAPTER FOUR Global-Local Discourse and Gendered Screen Fictions in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest 106

CONCLUSION Asian American Feminist Literary Criticism on Multiple Terrains 139

APPENDIX ONE Number of Plots in Dogeaters 147

APPENDIX TWO Epigraphs and Other Quoted Material in Dogeaters 148

Notes 151

Works Cited 185

Index 199

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel C. Lee is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.