The children of 1965 : on writing, and not writing, as an Asian American / Min Hyoung Song.

"Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Song, Min, 1970-
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Literatur.
Asiaten.
Physical Description:284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: we all have our reasons
  • Impositions of form
  • Theorizing expectations
  • The trope of the lost manuscript
  • Not ethnic literature
  • American personhood
  • Lines of flight
  • Comics and the changing meaning of race
  • Allegory and the child in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction
  • Becoming planetary
  • Desert-orient-nomad
  • Conclusion: world-making.