Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-
2. Najmi, Samina.

Description

1. 296 p.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies

Subject

1. Asian Americans in literature
2. American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism
3. Asian Americans > Intellectual life

Contents

1. Introduction: critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins: Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography: the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography: testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing --
2. Beyond the length of an average penis: reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story: the politics of genre in Native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again: literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.

Call number

1. *OAT 05-4690

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Form and transformation in Asian American literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi.

Imprint

1. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2005.

Series

1. The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

Added author

1. Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-
2. Najmi, Samina.

LCCN

1. 2004027906

ISBN

1. 0295985046 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. *OAT 05-4690