Donald C Goellnicht
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald C Goellnicht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald C |
| FAMILY NAME | Goellnicht |
| SIGNATURE | GOELLNICHT D C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen
Illuminates recent transformations in views of national and racial identity
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social pro…
Ethnic Literature's Hot: Asian American Literature, Refugee Cosmopolitanism, and Nam Le's The Boat
This article examines The Boat as a coherent collection of stories that self-consciously takes up, in "Love and Honor," some central debates in Asian American literary studies: questions of cultural authenticity, authorial ownership, responsible representation of trauma, the selling out of the community by subsequent generations, and what constitutes Asian American literature and/or "ethnic literature." It argues that Le complicates the concept o…
Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada (review)
Reviewed by: Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada Donald Goellnicht (bio) Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada, by Lily Cho. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. X + 207 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4426-1040-8 Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada by Lily Cho is one of those rare academic books that has gained considerable cross-over attention. Cho was interviewed several times on…
Theorizing Asian American Fiction
Theorizing Asian American Fiction Stephen Hong Sohn (bio), Paul Lai (bio), and Donald C. Goellnicht (bio) In assessing the state of Asian American literary studies, Susan Koshy claims that, “Although substantial historical scholarship has been produced, the field has been weak in theoretical work, especially when compared to Chicano, Native American and African American Studies. The lack of significant theoretical work has affected its developmen…
Of Bones and Suicide: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, arguably the foundational text of contemporary Asian North American women's writing, opens dramatically with a story " '[y]ou must not tell anyone' " (3). The taboo subject Maxine' s mother narrates is the story of Maxine' s paternal aunt' s humiliation of the family in China through her sexual transgression--her rape by or adultery with an undisclosed man not her husband--and [End Page 300] her resultant…
Passing as Autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - narrative of a fair-skinned mulatto man who, after many difficulties on both sides of color-line and much agonizing over the Negro problem in America, chooses to pass for white - was published anonymously in 1912, leading to speculation about identity of its author. Accepted by most readers and reviewers as authentic autobiography, this text was, in fact, a fiction written by James Weldon Johnson, himself a b…
Minority History as Metafiction: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Ethnic Literature's Hot: Asian American Literature, Refugee Cosmopolitanism, and Nam Le's The Boat
This article examines The Boat as a coherent collection of stories that self-consciously takes up, in "Love and Honor," some central debates in Asian American literary studies: questions of cultural authenticity, authorial ownership, responsible representation of trauma, the selling out of the community by subsequent generations, and what constitutes Asian American literature and/or "ethnic literature." It argues that Le complicates the concept o…
Passing as Autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - narrative of a fair-skinned mulatto man who, after many difficulties on both sides of color-line and much agonizing over the Negro problem in America, chooses to pass for white - was published anonymously in 1912, leading to speculation about identity of its author. Accepted by most readers and reviewers as authentic autobiography, this text was, in fact, a fiction written by James Weldon Johnson, himself a b…
Minority History as Metafiction: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Minority History as Metafiction: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Passing as Autobiography: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - narrative of a fair-skinned mulatto man who, after many difficulties on both sides of color-line and much agonizing over the Negro problem in America, chooses to pass for white - was published anonymously in 1912, leading to speculation about identity of its author. Accepted by most readers and reviewers as authentic autobiography, this text was, in fact, a fiction written by James Weldon Johnson, himself a b…
Of Bones and Suicide: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe and Fae Myenne Ng's Bone
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, arguably the foundational text of contemporary Asian North American women's writing, opens dramatically with a story " '[y]ou must not tell anyone' " (3). The taboo subject Maxine' s mother narrates is the story of Maxine' s paternal aunt' s humiliation of the family in China through her sexual transgression--her rape by or adultery with an undisclosed man not her husband--and [End Page 300] her resultant…
Theorizing Asian American Fiction
Theorizing Asian American Fiction Stephen Hong Sohn (bio), Paul Lai (bio), and Donald C. Goellnicht (bio) In assessing the state of Asian American literary studies, Susan Koshy claims that, “Although substantial historical scholarship has been produced, the field has been weak in theoretical work, especially when compared to Chicano, Native American and African American Studies. The lack of significant theoretical work has affected its developmen…
Ethnic Literature's Hot: Asian American Literature, Refugee Cosmopolitanism, and Nam Le's The Boat
This article examines The Boat as a coherent collection of stories that self-consciously takes up, in "Love and Honor," some central debates in Asian American literary studies: questions of cultural authenticity, authorial ownership, responsible representation of trauma, the selling out of the community by subsequent generations, and what constitutes Asian American literature and/or "ethnic literature." It argues that Le complicates the concept o…
Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada (review)
Reviewed by: Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada Donald Goellnicht (bio) Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada, by Lily Cho. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. X + 207 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4426-1040-8 Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada by Lily Cho is one of those rare academic books that has gained considerable cross-over attention. Cho was interviewed several times on…
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social pro…
Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen
Illuminates recent transformations in views of national and racial identity
History (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works)