This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.

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Information

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Year

2011

ISBN

9780295802305

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Asian American Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies
Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority
The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition
Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America
Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education
Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country
Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse
Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn
Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading across Traditions in the Poetry of Timothy Liu
Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World
Notes on Contributors
Index