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Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings / by Jade Tsui-yu Lee.

Lee, Jade Tsui-yu., author.
2020
PN1-PN6790
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Title
Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings / by Jade Tsui-yu Lee.
Author
Lee, Jade Tsui-yu., author.
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
ISBN
9789811563638
9811563632
9789811563638
9811563624
9789811563621
Published
Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (X, 141 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PN1-PN6790
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.5
Summary
Departing from Jacques Derrida's appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings, and posits a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and Andre Lamontagne. As these writings contain works regarding Japanese-American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebeçois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book presents a broad cross-cultural view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious conditions, as the diversified experiences examined here epitomize an intricate historical intimacy across four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe. Jade Tsui-yu Lee, a Fulbright alumnus, is a Professor in English Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU), Taiwan. She obtained her doctoral degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University (NTU) with a dissertation titled "Revisionary Aesthetics/Politics: The Creole Fiction of Jean Rhys and Michelle Cliff." The courses she regularly offers include Survey of American Literature, Literary Criticism, Contemporary English Fiction, and Asian American Literature. Her research interests include the studies of Asian American literature, contemporary British fiction, Caribbean studies, and Sino-Caribbean Diaspora.
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Introduction
Section I: Japanese (Post)-Internment Narratives
Against Historical Amnesia: Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor was Divine and Buddha in the Attic
The Politics of War Memories: Remembering the Japanese Internment in Joseph Craig Danner's The Fires of Edgarville
Section II: The Vietnam War and Refugee Writings
Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth: A Gothic and Liminal Narrative of Trauma
"All Wars Were Fought Twice": Viet Thanh Nguyen and Refugee Trauma Memories
Section III: Postmemory and Transoceanic Coolitude
Beyond Precarity and Trauma: Janice Lowe Shinebourne's The Last Ship
Post 911 Trauma in Janice Lowe Shinebourne's Chinese Women
In the Shadow of Modernity: The Search for Chinese Ghosts in André Lamontagne's Les fossoyeurs: Dans le memoire de Quebec (Gravediggers).

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