1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000000429707536

Autore

Piston, Walter

Titolo

Armonia / Walter Piston ; edizione riveduta e ampliata da Mark Devoto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : EDT, 1989

ISBN

8870630498

Descrizione fisica

xviii, 551 p. ; 25 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Devoto, Mark

Disciplina

781.3

Soggetti

Armonia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003944189707536

Autore

Cassano, Maria Ausiliatrice <1961- >

Titolo

Aperte allo spirito : Benedetta Carparelli e Scolastica Passante fondatrici delle Suore Oblate Benedettine di S. Scolastica  / Maria Auxilia Cassano ; prefazione di Mons. Settimio Todisco ; introduzione di Don Divo Barsotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Noci : Edizioni La scala, [1998]

Descrizione fisica

359 p. : ill. ; 20 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Barsotti, Divo

Todisco, Settimio

Disciplina

271.97

Soggetti

Carparelli, Benedetta <Suor>

Passante, Scolastica <Suor>

Carparelli, Benedetta <Suor>

Passante, Scolastica <Suor>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791189903321

Autore

Lim W

Titolo

Narratives of Diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature / / by W. Lim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-34264-5

1-137-05554-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/005

Soggetti

Literature

Communication

Culture - Study and teaching

World history

Fiction

Ethnology

World Literature

Media and Communication

Cultural Studies

World History, Global and Transnational History

Fiction Literature

Sociocultural Anthropology

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

Narratives of Diaspora: Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature; Contents; Note on Chinese Romanization; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: The Sino-Japanese War and Chinese History in Amy Tan's Novels and Lisa See's Shanghai Girls; Amy Tan and Chinese History; Lisa See and Chinese History; The Return to China; CHAPTER 2: The Vietnam War and the Cultural Politics of Loyalty in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace; War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace; Asian American Literature and the Discourse of Patriotism



CHAPTER 3: Sexual Politics, Buddhism, and Transnationalism in Russell Leong's The Country of Dreams and Dust and Phoenix EyesHistory, the Body, and Sexual Politics in The Country of Dreams and Dust; Race and Sexual Politics in America; Race, Sexual Politics, and Religion in Diaspora; Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Globalization; CHAPTER 4: Writing Exile and Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed and The City in Which I Love You; China and the Overseas Chinese; The Bible and the Poetics of Diaspora; Li-Young Lee and Southeast Asian Diasporic (Post)Modernism

CHAPTER 5: Postcolonial Southeast Asian Transnationalism in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces and Sister SwingLanguage, Education, and Postcolonial Subjectivity; American Freedom and Immigrant Subjectivity in Sister Swing; Writing Postcolonial Transnationalism and Diaspora; CHAPTER 6: Writing Communist China and the Politics of Diasporic Identity: Ha Jin, Anchee Min, Lien Chao, and Lisa See; Ha Jin, the Émigré Writer, and Chinese American Literature; History in Ha Jin's Waiting and The Crazed

Representing the Cultural Revolution in Anchee Min's Red Azalea and Lien Chao's Tiger GirlLisa See's Dreams of Joy, the Great Leap Forward, and the Return to America; The Chinese Turn; CONCLUSION: Chinese American Literature in the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness.