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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463704503321

Autore

Chu Patricia P.

Titolo

Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return / / Patricia P. Chu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4399-0227-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Collana

Asian American history & culture

Disciplina

810.9/895073

Soggetti

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Memory in literature

Melancholy in literature

Homeland in literature

Return in literature

Emigration and immigration in literature

Asian Americans in literature

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction  -- "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity -- Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children -- Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain -- "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda.