The Ghosts Within : Literary Imaginations of Asian America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Odabas, Janna (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Series:	Lettre
Subjects:	American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism. Ghosts in literature. America. American Studies. Culture. Ghost. Literary Studies. Literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. "risk the violence of reading the ghost"
Theoretical Reflections on Ghost Figures
2. Postcolonial Melodramatic Ghost Figures: Signs of Dis-ease in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Behold the Many
3. Traditions of Haunting: The Narration of a Ghostly Self and a Family's Ghosts in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Memories of My Ghost Brother
4. Renegotiating a Global Asian America: The Ghost in Global Genre Fiction by Amitav Ghosh, Amy Tan, and Ed Lin
Conclusion
Works Cited