LEADER 04932nam 2200817 a 450 001 9910455482803321 005 20211001023848.0 010 $a1-4008-0483-3 010 $a9786612753787 010 $a1-4008-2320-X 010 $a1-282-75378-9 010 $a1-4008-1250-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823208 035 $a(CKB)111056486505734 035 $a(EBL)617314 035 $a(OCoLC)705527085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127614 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10061542 035 $a(PQKB)10345842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617314 035 $a(OCoLC)51453434 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36161 035 $a(DE-B1597)446243 035 $a(OCoLC)979685331 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823208 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617314 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10002095 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275378 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486505734 100 $a19990302d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Americas of Asian American literature$b[electronic resource] $egendered fictions of nation and transnation /$fRachel C. Lee 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-05961-6 311 0 $a0-691-05960-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [185]-198) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContent --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America --$tChapter Two. Gish Jen and the Gendered Codes of Americanness --$tChapter Three. Transversing Nationalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Jessica Hagedorn's "Dogeaters" --$tChapter Four. Global-Local Discourse and Gendered Screen Fictions in Karen Tei Yamashita's "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest" --$tConclusion. Asian American Feminist Literary Criticism on Multiple Terrains --$tAppendix One. Number of Plots in "Dogeaters" --$tAppendix Two. Epigraphs and Other Quoted Material in "Dogeaters" --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aDrawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based political commitments--whether these are construed as national or global--in their readings of Asian American texts. This has constrained the intelligibility of stories that are focused less on ethnicity than on kinship, family dynamics, eroticism, and gender roles. In response, Lee makes a case for a reconceptualized Asian American criticism that centrally features gender and sexuality. Through a critical analysis of select literary texts--novels by Carlos Bulosan, Gish Jen, Jessica Hagedorn, and Karen Yamashita--Lee probes the specific ways in which some Asian American authors have steered around ethnic themes with alternative tales circulating around gender and sexual identity. Lee makes it clear that what has been missing from current debates has been an analysis of the complex ways in which gender mediates questions of both national belonging and international migration. From anti-miscegenation legislation in the early twentieth century to poststructuralist theories of language to Third World feminist theory to critical studies of global cultural and economic flows, The Americas of Asian American Literature takes up pressing cultural and literary questions and points to a new direction in literary criticism. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a810.9/895 700 $aLee$b Rachel C.$f1966-$01050726 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455482803321 996 $aThe Americas of Asian American literature$92480786 997 $aUNINA