03583nam 2200781Ia 450 991096586640332120200520144314.09780804783705080478370510.1515/9780804783705(CKB)2670000000155652(EBL)867726(OCoLC)779828611(SSID)ssj0000641030(PQKBManifestationID)12221005(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000641030(PQKBWorkID)10622907(PQKB)10195893(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127896(DE-B1597)563814(DE-B1597)9780804783705(Au-PeEL)EBL867726(CaPaEBR)ebr10539264(OCoLC)1198930786(dli)HEB33214(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000835(MiAaPQ)EBC867726(Perlego)745727(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000835(EXLCZ)99267000000015565220110831d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe semblance of identity aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature /Christopher Lee1st ed.Stanford, CA Stanford University Press20121 online resource (208 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.9780804778701 0804778701 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Post-Identity Condition; 1. The Strange Smell of Truth: Ethnicity, Translation, and Realism in the Cold War Writings of Eileen Chang; 2. The Ironic Temporalities of Cultural Nationalism; 3. Sound and the Subject in The Woman Warrior and Tripmaster Monkey; 4. Form Giving and the Remains of Identity in A Gesture Life; 5. Semblance, Shame, and the Work of Comparison; Conclusion: The Difference Asian America Makes; Notes; Works Cited; IndexThe history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent coAsian America.Aesthetic mediation in Asian American literatureAmerican literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAsian Americans in literatureEthnicity in literatureLiteratureAestheticsAmerican literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Asian Americans in literature.Ethnicity in literature.LiteratureAesthetics.810.9/895073Lee Christopher(Christopher Ming),1978-1792195MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965866403321The semblance of identity4330410UNINA