LEADER 04379nam 2200493 450 001 9910794184403321 005 20220930162519.0 010 $a1-4744-6934-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474469340 035 $a(CKB)4100000010673611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6141843 035 $a(DE-B1597)616944 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474469340 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010673611 100 $a20200621d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAsian american literary studies /$fedited by Guiyou Huang 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) 225 1 $aIntroducing ethnic studies 311 $a0-7486-2012-5 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tSeries Editor?s Foreword --$tIntroduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American Literary Studies --$tSection I: Perspectives on Literature and History --$tChapter 1 Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation --$tChapter 2 The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies --$tChapter 3 Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee?s A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone?s Irrawaddy Tango --$tSection II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation --$tChapter 4 Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies --$tChapter 5 Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination --$tChapter 6 Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel --$tChapter 7 Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers --$tSection III: Perspectives on Language and Culture --$tChapter 8 ?I Love My India?: Indian American Students Performing Identity and Creating Culture on Stage --$tChapter 9 Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Literature of Hawai?i --$tChapter 10 Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama --$tNotes on the Editor and Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748620135);This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Vietnamese.Section I probes themes such as the vital role that war plays in the production of Asian American literary works, and the agency of the self in the life writings of Asian American autobiographers. Section II examines the confines of binary oppositions of gender, as well as issues of pan-ethnicity and gender relations. Section III explores the role that performance, film, and language play in the definition of self-identity and in ethnic empowerment. Five intrinsically connected themes run through all sections: gender roles; stereotyping; identity politics; intersections of literature, history, family, and the self; and the impact of wars on Asian American culture and literature. The chapters illuminate each other by discussing ideas and issues that are the enlargements of other, related themes and topics.Key FeaturesGlobal perspectives on the literary textsInterdisciplinary approach to the subjectContributors' expertiseUp-to-date coverage" 410 0$aIntroducing ethnic studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$y20th century 606 $aWar in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aWar in literature. 676 $a810.9895 700 $aHuang$b Guiyou$f1961-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0596827 702 $aHuang$b Guiyou$f1961- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794184403321 996 $aAsian american literary studies$93709957 997 $aUNINA