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Imagining the nation : Asian American literature and cultural consent /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Li, David Leiwei, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
Series:Asian America.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: alienation, abjection, and Asian American citizenship
  • Aiiieeeee! and the predicament of Asian American articulation
  • Can Maxine Hong Kingston speak? the contingency of The Woman Warrior
  • Canon, collaboration, and the corporeality of culture
  • American romances, immigrant incarnations
  • Genes, generation, and geospiritual (be)longings
  • Eccentric homes: topography, pedagogy, and memory
  • The look, the act, the transvestic, and the transpirational Asian
  • Ethnic agency and the challenge of representation
  • Conclusion: Asian American identity in difference and diaspora.