| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages) |
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American ethnic and cultural studies |
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American ethnic and cultural studies.
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Literary Chinatown: dynamics of race and reading -- What is an ethnic author? -- The politics of ethnic authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the banquet table -- Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and gold -- Changing signifiers and changing horizons: baseball in three stories by David Wong Louie -- Change and the playful reader: reading Shawn Wong's American Knees -- Beyond multicultural: cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen |
| Summary |
"With attentive readings not only of literary texts but also of book reviews and publishers' marketing materials, Partridge enables us to chart and to understand the changes in Chinese American literature and its reception in the past fifty years. In doing so, he threads a new path forward in the discussion of race and ethnicity in America, one that encompasses the historical valence of multiculturalism and the cross-fertilizing perspectives of postmodern hybridity theory while remaining cognizant of the persistence of racist and racialized thinking in contemporary American society. Beyond Literary Chinatown demonstrates how Chinese American literature has come to negotiate the tensions between the expression of ethnic identity and a resistance to racialization."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) 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 |
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Print version record |
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American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Multiculturalism in literature.
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American literature -- Chinese American authors
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Chinese Americans in literature
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Ethnicity in literature
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Multiculturalism in literature
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Literatur
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Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
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Ethnische Identität
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USA
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Chinesen.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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