By Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
A fresh explosion of publishing task through quite a lot of gifted writers has put Asian American literature within the limelight. because the box of Asian American literary reports earnings expanding attractiveness, even if, questions of misreading and appropriation necessarily come up. How is the becoming physique of Asian American works to be learn? What holds them jointly to represent a practice? What distinguishes this custom from the "mainstream" canon and different "minority" literatures? within the first accomplished e-book on Asian American literature on account that Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 quantity, Sau-ling Wong addresses those concerns and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.
Wong does so via constructing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature in the course of the research of 4 motifs--food and consuming, the Doppelg,nger determine, mobility, and play--in their a number of sociohistorical contexts. happening throughout ethnic subgroup, gender, type, generational, and ancient obstacles, those motifs resonate with one another in especially Asian American styles that universalistic theories can't discover. rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The lady Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," additional unify this unique, wide-ranging research. Authors studied contain Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, pleasure Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi.
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