03211nam 2200697 450 991046370450332120200520144314.01-4399-0227-5(CKB)3240000000065648(MiAaPQ)EBC5611005(Au-PeEL)EBL5611005(OCoLC)1045660423(EXLCZ)99324000000006564820190104d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhere I have never been migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return /Patricia P. ChuPhiladelphia ;Rome ;Tokyo :Temple University Press,2019.1 online resource (277 pages)Asian American history & culture1-4399-0225-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Asian American history and culture.American literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature21st centuryHistory and criticismAsian AmericansEthnic identityMemory in literatureMelancholy in literatureHomeland in literatureReturn in literatureEmigration and immigration in literatureAsian Americans in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian AmericanbisacshSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American StudiesbisacshElectronic books.American literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Asian AmericansEthnic 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.810.9/895073Chu Patricia P.932965MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463704503321Where I have never been2099820UNINA