Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
This book opens with an interrogation of the representation of immigrants in Asian American and, to a lesser extent, Asian Diaspora literatures, including works by such writers as Maxine Hong Kingston, Frank Chin, Amy Tan, and Bharati Mukherjee. Immigrant subjectivities in these texts are frequently subsumed in the urgent need to self-fashion an Asian American identity, and take the peculiar form of immigrant schizophrenic. Ma also explores how the drive to claim America manifests itself as an eroticization of white bodies in male immigrant and minority writers. He then directs his attention to immigrant self-representation from the unique ye…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-3830-5
- EAN: 9780791438305
- Produktnummer: 1430390
- Verlag: State Univ Of Ny Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.3 cm 272 g
- Gewicht: 272
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