Modern minority : Asian American literature and everyday life

• Autore: Lee Yoon Sun
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 810.9/895
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism; Realism in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Asian American Realism and the Forms of Everyday Minorness -- PART I: Discovering the Modern Everyday -- 1. The Outward Spiral: Why Kang and Bulosan Ignore the Everyday -- 2. Little Things: The Uncanny Everyday of Internment Literature -- PART II: The Problem of Identity -- 3. Unlikely Daughters, Exemplary Mothers, and Disembedded China Men: Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston -- 4. The Changing Story of Thingness: From Kogawa and Keller to Ha Jin and Lan Samantha Chang -- PART III: Everyday Immanence -- 5. Lists, Native Speaker , and the Politics of Emergence -- 6. Extensive Time and Crumpled Surfaces: Projects of Identity in Frank Chin and Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- CONCLUSION: Encountering Modernity Every Day -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Modern Minority' presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.
• Titolo autorizzato: Modern minority : Asian American literature and everyday life
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961090003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II