Invisible subjects [electronic resource] : Asian America in postwar literature / Heidi Kim.
2016
PS153.A83 K56 2016eb
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Title
Invisible subjects [electronic resource] : Asian America in postwar literature / Heidi Kim.
Author
Kim, Heidi Kathleen, author.
ISBN
9780190456276 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 233 pages)
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456252 doi
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PS153.A83 K56 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9895
Summary
'Invisible Subjects' broadens the archive of Asian American studies, using advances in Asian American history and historiography to reinterpret the politics of the major figures of post-World War II American literature and criticism. Taking its theoretical inspiration from the work of Ralph Ellison and his focus on the invisibility of a racial minority in mainstream history, the text argues that the work of American studies and literature in the early Cold War era to explain and contain the troubling Asian figure reflects both the swift amnesia that covers the Pacific theatre of World War II and the importance of the Asian to immigration debates and civil rights.
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'Invisible Subjects' broadens the archive of Asian American studies, using advances in Asian American history and historiography to reinterpret the politics of the major figures of post-World War II American literature and criticism. Taking its theoretical inspiration from the work of Ralph Ellison and his focus on the invisibility of a racial minority in mainstream history, the text argues that the work of American studies and literature in the early Cold War era to explain and contain the troubling Asian figure reflects both the swift amnesia that covers the Pacific theatre of World War II and the importance of the Asian to immigration debates and civil rights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The Black and Blue 1950s
Invisible Man, Invisible Subjects: History and Race Erased in the Early Cold War
The Chinese American Adam: History and Universality in John Steinbeck's Eden
Love and Death in the American Pacific: Myth versus History in the Melville Revival
The Foreign Faulkner: The Mississippi Chinese in Faulkner's South
Conclusion: Asian America, Visible.
Invisible Man, Invisible Subjects: History and Race Erased in the Early Cold War
The Chinese American Adam: History and Universality in John Steinbeck's Eden
Love and Death in the American Pacific: Myth versus History in the Melville Revival
The Foreign Faulkner: The Mississippi Chinese in Faulkner's South
Conclusion: Asian America, Visible.