LEADER 03105nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910806156603321 005 20240516131654.0 010 $a0-8047-8204-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000155650 035 $a(EBL)867723 035 $a(OCoLC)779828609 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631625 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372273 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631625 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10600300 035 $a(PQKB)10628754 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127936 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC867723 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL867723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539268 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000155650 100 $a20111214d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAcross meridians $ehistory and figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's transnational novels /$fJinqi Ling 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, CA $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aAsian America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7801-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Politics of Geography: Or, a Troping of Asian American Spatial Imagination; 2. Southward Migration: Empire Building and Transculturation in Brazil- Maru; 3. Subterranean Transnationality: Race, Affect, and Material Form in Circle K Cycles; 4. Writing against Reification: Temporality and Popular Genre in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest; 5. Thinking Magic, Reinventing the Real: Consciousness and Decolonization in Tropic of Orange; 6. Toward a Critical Internationalism: Nation, Revolt, and Performance in I Hotel; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index 330 $aOver the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Ling's study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism. Arguing that Yamashit 410 0$aAsian America. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsians in literature 606 $aTransnationalism in literature 606 $aLiterature and transnationalism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAsians in literature. 615 0$aTransnationalism in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and transnationalism. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aLing$b Jinqi$01669992 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806156603321 996 $aAcross meridians$94031538 997 $aUNINA