03141nam 2200625Ia 450 991046168690332120200520144314.00-8047-8204-0(CKB)2670000000155650(EBL)867723(OCoLC)779828609(SSID)ssj0000631625(PQKBManifestationID)11372273(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631625(PQKBWorkID)10600300(PQKB)10628754(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127936(MiAaPQ)EBC867723(Au-PeEL)EBL867723(CaPaEBR)ebr10539268(EXLCZ)99267000000015565020111214d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAcross meridians[electronic resource] history and figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's transnational novels /Jinqi LingStanford, CA Stanford University Press20121 online resource (248 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7801-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexOver 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 YamashitAsian America.American fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticismAsians in literatureTransnationalism in literatureLiterature and transnationalismElectronic books.American fictionAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Asians in literature.Transnationalism in literature.Literature and transnationalism.813/.54Ling Jinqi969331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461686903321Across meridians2202656UNINA