Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures / Sheng-mei Ma.

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Ma, Sheng-mei

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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 188 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585090335
9780585090337

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Immigrant subjectivities

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures.DDC classification:

810.9/895 21

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PS153.A84 M3 1998eb

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Contents:

Introduction: Ideology and the Representation of Immigrant 1 -- Part 1. The Representation of the Asian Other -- Part 2. Immigrant Subjectivity through Eroticism -- Part 3. Immigrant Self-Representation.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.

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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