Reading Asian American Literature : from necessity to extravagance.

By:

Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400821068
1400821061

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading Asian American Literature : From Necessity to Extravagance.DDC classification:

810.9/895

LOC classification:

PS153.A84W66 1993

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Summary: A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau.

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A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau.