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Title The Routledge companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander literature / edited by Rachel C. Lee
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 521 pages)
Series Routledge companions
Routledge companions.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Keywords; 1 Adoptee; 2 Aesthetics; 3 Affect/Family/Filialty; 4 Agency/Asiancy; 5 Biopolitics; 6 Coolie; 7 Cultural Capital; 8 Empire; 9 Fashion; 10 Fetish; 11 I-Hotel; 12 Imprisonment/Internment/Detention; 13 Militarization; 14 Oceania; 15 Sexuality; Part II Geographies, Literary Ethnoscapes, and Historical Periods; 16 Nineteenth-Century Orientalisms; 17 Arab American Literature; 18 Asian American 1960s; 19 Asian Canadian
20 Burmese American Literature21 East Asian Approaches to Asian American Literary Studies: The Cases of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea; 22 Equatorial Archipelagoes; 23 European Asian American Literary Studies; 24 Korean War Fiction; 25 Late (Global) Capital; 26 Modernism; 27 Sinophone American Literature; 28 The South Asian Subcontinent; 29 Transpacific; 30 Viet Nam; Part III Genre, Form, and the Paraliterary; 31 Asian American Autobiography/Memoir; 32 Avant-Garde; 33 Bildung: And the Asian American Bildungsroman; 34 Comics; 35 Narrative and Gaming; 36 New Media
37 Pathography/Illness Narratives38 Performance; 39 Poetry; 40 Song, Orality, and Pop; 41 Speculative Fiction; Index
Summary "The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume iIntroduces "keywords" connecting the theories, themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature; addresses historical periods, geographies and literary identities; looks at different genre, form and interdisciplinarity. With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American, Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
Asian Americans in literature.
American literature -- Pacific Islander American authors -- History and criticism
Pacific Islander Americans -- Intellectual life
Pacific Islander Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Pacific Islander Americans in literature
American literature -- Asian American authors
American literature -- Pacific Islander American authors
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life
Group identity in literature
Intellectual life
National characteristics in literature
Asiaten
Ozeanier
Asian American literature -- Handbooks.
American literature -- Pacific Islander American authors -- History and criticism.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs d'origine asiatique -- Histoire et critique.
Auteurs d'origine asiatique -- Vie intellectuelle.
Asian Americans in literature -- Dans la littérature.
Auteurs d'origine asiatique -- Dans la littérature.
Population d'origine océanique -- Vie intellectuelle.
Population d'origine océanique -- Dans la littérature.
Caractère national -- Dans la littérature.
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- Intellectual life
Subject Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Pacifique Sud, Îles du -- Vie intellectuelle.
Genre/Form handbooks.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Lee, Rachel C., 1966- editor.
ISBN 9781317698418
131769841X
9781315779089
1315779080
9781315779089
Other Titles Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander literature
Asian American and Pacific Islander literature