Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits

✍ Scribed by Shirley Lim (editor), Gina Valentino (editor), John Gamber (editor), Stephen Sohn (editor)

Publisher: Temple University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 324
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally balanced mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Asian American Literature in Transition,

📁 Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996: Volume 3

✍ Asha Nadkarni, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 1965–1996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what is now recognizable as an Asian American literary canon. It takes as its central focus the connections among literature, history, and migration, explor

Asian American Literature in Transition,

📁 Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020: Volume 4

✍ Betsy Huang (editor), Victor Roman Mendoza (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is

É/change: transitions et transactions da

📁 É/change: transitions et transactions dans la littérature française = Ex/change: transitions and transactions in French literature

📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Peter Lang

American Literature in Transition, 1770–

📁 American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 (Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition)

✍ William Huntting Howell (editor), Greta LaFleur (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

<span>This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetic

Transnationalism and American Literature

📁 Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American LiteratureA?)

✍ Colleen Glenney Boggs 📂 Library 📅 2007 🌐 English

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temp

The Americas of Asian American Literatur

📁 The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation

✍ Rachel C. Lee 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

<p>Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based