Modern minority : Asian American literature and everyday life /

'Modern Minority' presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lee, Yoon Sun
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism. Realism in literature. Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique. Réalisme dans la littérature. American literature > Asian American authors Realism in literature English. Languages & Literatures. American Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. Alltag > Motiv Asiaten Literatur USA Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Asian American realism and the forms of everyday minorness
The outward spiral: why Kang and Bulosan ignore the everyday
Little things: the uncanny everyday of internment literature
Unlikely daughters, exemplary mothers, and disembedded China men: Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston
The changing story of thingness: from Kogawa and Keller to Ha Jin and Lan Samantha Chang
Lists, Native speaker, and the politics of emergence
Extensive time and crumpled surfaces: projects of identity in Frank Chin and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Conclusion: encountering modernity every day.