Asian American Literature

Asian American Literature

Ling, Jinqi

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

11/2022

240

Mole

Inglês

9781350336018

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements
Introduction:
Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field

Chapter One
Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations
--Centering Gender
--Exploration of Sexuality
--Essentialism and Difference
--Race and Class Revisited

Chapter Two
The Necessity and Fiction of "Asian America"
--Cultural Nationalism
--Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity
--Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies
--Rethinking Asian American Specificity

Chapter Three
Intercultural and Generational Concerns
--Writing Immigrants
--Cultural Translation
--Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation

--Breaking the Tradition

Chapter Four
The Transnational Turn
--Planetary Presence
--The Asia-Pacific Investment
--Cautions and Dissonances
--Locating the Historical Referent

Chapter Five
The Social Function of Literature
--Cognitive Uses of Language
--Community-Based Self-Representation
--Controversies
--Debating Resistance

Chapter Six
Aesthetic Form
--Form after New Criticism
--Legacies and Practices
--Reinventing Realist Genres
--Poetic and Theatrical Studies

Chapter Seven
Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization
--Reading Formations
--Periodization
--Methodological Challenge
--Post-identity Subjects

Chapter Eight
Emerging Interests
--Food Studies
--Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism
--Speculative Literature
--Digital Humanities and New Media

Conclusion
Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession
Notes
Bibliography
Index
race, class, gender; intercultural; intergenerational; politics; institutionalization; Asian American criticism; United States