The Literary Case of Wen Ho Lee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colleen Lye (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 249-282 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2011.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W1971146356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Lye's essay produces an important dialogue between historical and literary approaches to the term "Asian American." Comparing two treatments of the Wen Ho Lee story, the "autobiographical" My Country vs. Me , co-written with Helen Zia, and Susan Choi's "historical" novel A Person of Interest , Lye argues for the necessity of historicizing "Asian American" by considering its political and literary senses as non-homologous. Her contrapuntal reading shows how literature supplements history by constructing a post-1965 Asian American professional middle-class subject, and how history supplements literature in an "epistemology of racial formation
Art · Asian americans · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethnic group · History of literature · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
"Bled In, Letter by Letter"
Collaboration and Translation
The Afro-Asian Analogy
Racial Formation in the United States
Racial Transformations
Reading Asian American Literature
The Fiction of Asian American Literature
Model Minority, High-tech Coolies, and Foreign Spies
I'm Not Here, If This Doesn't Happen
Sensitive but Unclassified
Lie Detectors
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |