02811nam 2200625Ia 450 991082599150332120200520144314.01-281-35753-797866113575350-7486-2983-110.1515/9780748629831(CKB)1000000000414809(EBL)343568(OCoLC)465643312(SSID)ssj0000106367(PQKBManifestationID)11128658(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000106367(PQKBWorkID)10109992(PQKB)10861196(MiAaPQ)EBC343568(DE-B1597)616413(DE-B1597)9780748629831(OCoLC)1302166034(PPN)190370238(EXLCZ)99100000000041480920071031d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrAsian American literature /Bella Adams1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20081 online resource (249 p.)Edinburgh critical guides to literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-2271-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.COVER; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. American Ways of Looking, 1880's-1920's; 2. We are America, 1930's-50's; 3. Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960's-70's; 4. Between Worlds, the 1980's; 5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990's; Conclusion; Student Resources; IndexThis critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of this book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970's onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisibleEdinburgh critical guides to literature.American literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismAsian American authorsAmerican literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Asian American authors.810.9895073Adams Bella1624697MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825991503321Asian American Literature3959839UNINA