LEADER 04725nam 2200721 450 001 9910820044303321 005 20230124191614.0 010 $a1-4399-0227-5 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5611005 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5611005 035 $a(OCoLC)1045660423 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065648 100 $a20190104d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhere I have never been $emigration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return /$fPatricia P. Chu 210 1$aPhiladelphia ;$aRome ;$aTokyo :$cTemple University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 225 1 $aAsian American history & culture 311 $a1-4399-0225-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity -- Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children -- Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain -- "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda. 330 $a"In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents' ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related melancholia, contests official histories, and portrays Asian American families as flexible and transpacific. Where I Have Never Been explores the tropes of return, tracing both literal return visits by Asian emigrants and symbolic "returns": first visits by diasporic offspring. Chu argues that these Asian American narratives seek to remedy widely held anxieties about cultural loss and the erasure of personal and family histories from public memory. In fiction, memoirs, and personal essays, the writers of return narratives--including novelists Lisa See, May-lee Chai, Lydia Minatoya, and Ruth Ozeki, and best-selling author Denise Chong, diplomat Yung Wing, scholar Winberg Chai, essayist Josephine Khu, and many others--register and respond to personal and family losses through acts of remembrance and countermemory"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"This manuscript looks at migration, melancholia, and memory in what the author calls "Asian American narratives of return," or fiction and nonfiction narratives in which the narrator visits the ancestral homeland in Asia"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aAsian American history and culture. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsian Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aMemory in literature 606 $aMelancholy in literature 606 $aHomeland in literature 606 $aReturn in literature 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies$2bisacsh 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aMemory in literature. 615 0$aMelancholy in literature. 615 0$aHomeland in literature. 615 0$aReturn in literature. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies. 676 $a810.9/895073 686 $aLIT004030$aSOC043000$2bisacsh 700 $aChu$b Patricia P.$01675236 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820044303321 996 $aWhere I have never been$94040559 997 $aUNINA