Form and transformation in Asian American literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.
| Uniform Title: | Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2005], ©2005.
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| Series: | Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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| Physical Description: | 296 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing
- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens
- The seduction of origins: Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih
- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung
- Reading ethnography: the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas
- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth
- Cambodian American autobiography: testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada
- Hat softeners "in the trade confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing
- Beyond the length of an average penis: reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano
- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi
- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis
- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story: the politics of genre in Native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen
- Telling twice-told tales all over again: literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.