The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature / / Christopher Lee
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| Autore: |
Lee Christopher (Christopher Ming), <1978->
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| Titolo: |
The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature / / Christopher Lee
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/895073 |
| Soggetto topico: | American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
| American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Asian Americans in literature | |
| Ethnicity in literature | |
| Literature - Aesthetics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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 co |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The semblance of identity |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8370-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818752103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Asian America.