Asian American Literature

Bibliographic Data

ID19939490
AuthorsBella Adams (corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-04-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAsian American Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9780748629831
OpenAlexW16703591
Open LibraryOL10760662M
ISBN9780748629831
LanguageEN
Citations received10

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622726'); This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of the book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisible. Of particular importance to the writers selected for case studies are questions of racial identity, cultural history and literary value with respect to dominant American ideologies. Key Features Discusses a representative range of Asian American literature, providing a sense of the diversity of the field and of its key themes and modes of writing Provides close readings of key texts through of case studies in their cultural, historical and critical contexts Encourages reflection on questions of literary value, canonicity and the scope and purpose of literary studies

Aesthetics · American literature · Art · Diversity (politics) · Drama · History of literature · Identity (music) · Ideology · Literary criticism · Literary science · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Law · Asian American authors · asian american authors, history and criticism · History and criticism

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