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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461686903321

Autore

Ling Jinqi

Titolo

Across meridians [[electronic resource] ] : history and figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's transnational novels / / Jinqi Ling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8204-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Asian America

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

American fiction - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Asians in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Literature and transnationalism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Politics of Geography: Or, a Troping of Asian American Spatial Imagination; 2. Southward Migration: Empire Building and Transculturation in Brazil- Maru; 3. Subterranean Transnationality: Race, Affect, and Material Form in Circle K Cycles; 4. Writing against Reification: Temporality and Popular Genre in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest; 5. Thinking Magic, Reinventing the Real: Consciousness and Decolonization in Tropic of Orange; 6. Toward a Critical Internationalism: Nation, Revolt, and Performance in I Hotel; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Ling's study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism. Arguing that Yamashit