Ethnic Literature's Hot
Asian American Literature, Refugee Cosmopolitanism, and Nam Le's The Boat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald C Goellnicht (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-224 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| 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.2012.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W1989326613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
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 of ethnic literature through the middle stories of the collection by imbricating the ethnic with the cosmopolitan, two concepts that are usually viewed in opposition, to arrive at the idea of "refugee cosmopolitanism" in the final story, "The Boat
Asian americans · Cosmopolitanism · Ethnic group · Honor · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |