04725nam 2200721 450 991082004430332120230124191614.01-4399-0227-5(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."In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents' ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related melancholia, contests official histories, and portrays Asian American families as flexible and transpacific. Where I Have Never Been explores the tropes of return, tracing both literal return visits by Asian emigrants and symbolic "returns": first visits by diasporic offspring. Chu argues that these Asian American narratives seek to remedy widely held anxieties about cultural loss and the erasure of personal and family histories from public memory. In fiction, memoirs, and personal essays, the writers of return narratives--including novelists Lisa See, May-lee Chai, Lydia Minatoya, and Ruth Ozeki, and best-selling author Denise Chong, diplomat Yung Wing, scholar Winberg Chai, essayist Josephine Khu, and many others--register and respond to personal and family losses through acts of remembrance and countermemory"--Provided by publisher."This manuscript looks at migration, melancholia, and memory in what the author calls "Asian American narratives of return," or fiction and nonfiction narratives in which the narrator visits the ancestral homeland in Asia"--Provided by publisher.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 StudiesbisacshAmerican 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.810.9/895073LIT004030SOC043000bisacshChu Patricia P.1675236MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820044303321Where I have never been4040559UNINA