Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures /
Ma, Sheng-mei.
Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures / Immigrant subjectivities Sheng-mei Ma. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
Introduction: Ideology and the Representation of Immigrant The Representation of the Asian Other -- Immigrant Subjectivity through Eroticism -- Immigrant Self-Representation. 1 -- Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
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 yet representative positionality of Taiwanese immigrants, as found in overseas student literature and in the recent films of Ang Lee. With a contrapuntal reading of the portrayal of immigrants in Asian American and Asian Diaspora literatures, this book maps out a terrain largely uncharted by scholars of various disciplines.
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American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Asians--Intellectual life.--Foreign countries
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--Asian American.
American literature--Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS153.A84 / M3 1998eb
810.9/895
Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures / Immigrant subjectivities Sheng-mei Ma. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998. - 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
Introduction: Ideology and the Representation of Immigrant The Representation of the Asian Other -- Immigrant Subjectivity through Eroticism -- Immigrant Self-Representation. 1 -- Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
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 yet representative positionality of Taiwanese immigrants, as found in overseas student literature and in the recent films of Ang Lee. With a contrapuntal reading of the portrayal of immigrants in Asian American and Asian Diaspora literatures, this book maps out a terrain largely uncharted by scholars of various disciplines.
0585090335 9780585090337
97030819
American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Asians--Intellectual life.--Foreign countries
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--Asian American.
American literature--Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PS153.A84 / M3 1998eb
810.9/895