04870nam 22008535 450 991079118990332120230810141632.01-349-34264-51-137-05554-510.1057/9781137055545(CKB)2550000001308477(EBL)1699320(SSID)ssj0001261045(PQKBManifestationID)12497486(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001261045(PQKBWorkID)11312363(PQKB)10111742(SSID)ssj0001659670(PQKBManifestationID)16441267(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001659670(PQKBWorkID)14990151(PQKB)11360107(DE-He213)978-1-137-05554-5(MiAaPQ)EBC1699320(EXLCZ)99255000000130847720151230d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNarratives of Diaspora[electronic resource] Representations of Asia in Chinese American Literature /by W. Lim1st ed. 2013.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-230-34006-7 1-137-15447-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PatriotismCHAPTER 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)ModernismCHAPTER 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 CrazedRepresenting 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; IndexChinese 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.LiteratureCommunicationCultureStudy and teachingWorld historyFictionEthnologyWorld LiteratureMedia and CommunicationCultural StudiesWorld History, Global and Transnational HistoryFiction LiteratureSociocultural AnthropologyLiterature.Communication.CultureStudy and teaching.World history.Fiction.Ethnology.World Literature.Media and Communication.Cultural Studies.World History, Global and Transnational History.Fiction Literature.Sociocultural Anthropology.810.9/005Lim Wauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1555845BOOK9910791189903321Narratives of Diaspora3818077UNINA