Asian American literature / Jinqi Ling.

"This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Readers' guides to essential criticism.
Main Author: Ling, Jinqi (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Series:Readers' guides to essential criticism.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Criticism > United States.
Criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:viii, 230 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! moment: a historicist view of the field
  • Race, gender, and class: overlapping formations
  • The necessity and fiction of "Asian America"
  • Intercultural and generational concerns
  • The transnational turn
  • The social function of literature
  • Aesthetic form
  • Protocols and the politics of institutionalization
  • Emerging interests
  • Conclusion: Anti-essentialist critique and the Asian American literary profession.