Begin here : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood / Rocío G. Davis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Rocío G.
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Asians > Canada > Biography > History and criticism.
Asian American children > Biography > History and criticism.
Children > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Children > Canada > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Children in literature.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Asians > Canada > Social conditions.
Genre:
Biography
Physical Description:xii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • To begin here
  • The Asian childhood : writing beginnings
  • Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure
  • The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position
  • Citizens or denizens : inscribing the tropes of Asian North Americanization
  • In North America : formulating experience
  • The childhood for children : the cultural experience of the early reader
  • Conclusion : rewriting the childhood.