Title Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America / Patricia P. Chu

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages) Series New Americanists New Americanists. Contents Introduction: "a city of words" -- America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada -- Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura -- Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee -- "That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club -- Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition -- Coda: "What we should become, what we were." Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Andrae, A. gnd Subject American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature. Asian American women -- Intellectual life Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. Women and literature -- United States Asian American women in literature. Asian Americans in literature. Group identity in literature. Authorship -- Sex differences Bildungsromans, American -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American. American literature -- Asian American authors American literature -- Women authors Asian American women in literature Asian American women -- Intellectual life Asian Americans in literature Assimilation (Sociology) in literature Authorship -- Sex differences Bildungsromans, American Group identity in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Women and literature Asiaten Ethnische Identität Roman Geschichte 1950-2000. United States USA Asiaten. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bildungsromans. Bildungsromans. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822381358 0822381354 9786613062222 6613062227 1283062224 9781283062220

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