The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature / edited by Crystal Parikh, New York University ; Daniel Y. Kim, Brown University.
Parikh, Crystal, editor.; Kim, Daniel Y., editor.
2015
PS153.A84 C35 2015 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature / edited by Crystal Parikh, New York University ; Daniel Y. Kim, Brown University.
ISBN 9781107095175 (hardcover)
1107095174 (hardcover)
9781107479142
1107479142
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description xxiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PS153.A84 C35 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/895
Summary Offers a survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, exploring the variety of historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature, and covering subjects from immigrant narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies and the problem of translation.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Parikh, Crystal, editor.
Kim, Daniel Y., editor.
Series Cambridge companions to literature.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Chronology of major works and events, 1763-2014 / Crystal Parikh
Part I. Formations of Asian America : immigration, empire, law. Asian American literature within and beyond the immigrant narrative / Min Hyoung Song ; America's empire and the Asia-Pacific : constructing Hawai'i and the Philippines / Denise Cruz and Erin Suzuki ; Adjudicating Asian America / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa


Part II. Asian American writing and the legacy of war. Writing the internment / Greg Robinson ; The literature of the Korean War and Vietnam War / Daniel Y. Kim and Viet Thanh Nguyen ; "The war on terror" : post-9/11 south Asian and Arab American literature / Rajini Srikanth


Part III. The extravagant of genre. Asian American drama / Josephine Yee ; Asian American poetry / Josephine Park ; Model minority narratives and the Asian American family / Erin Ninh ; The writing of translation / Christopher Lee ; Popular genres and new media / Betsy Huang ; Toward a definition of diaspora literature / Hyungji Park


Part IV. Identities and postidentities. Feminisms and queer interventions into Asian America / Helena Grice and Crystal Parikh ; Comparative race studies and interracialisms / Joseph Keith ; Rethinking embodiment and hybridity : mixed-race, adoptee, and disabled subjectivities / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and Cynthia Wu.

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