Narrating nationalisms [[electronic resource] ] : ideology and form in Asian American literature / / Jinqi Ling

• Autore: Ling Jinqi
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix,212p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/895/09045
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Influence; Asian Americans - Intellectual life; Asian Americans in literature; Literary form
• Note generali: Bibliography: p187-202. _ Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- 1. History, Entanglement, and Negotiated Change -- 2. Writing the Novel, Narrating Discontents: Race and Cultural Politics in John Okada's No-No Boy -- 3. Realist Intervention and the Return of the Repressed: Reading Class, Gender, and Culture in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea -- 4. Performing the Margins: Ethics and the Poetics of Frank Chin's Theatrical Discourse -- 5. Maxine Hong Kingston's Remapping of Asian American Historical Imagination in China Men -- 6. Critical Negotiations: Issues in Asian American Cultural Studies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ling's book rereads five works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-World War II Asian-American literary history.
• Titolo autorizzato: Narrating nationalisms
• ISBN: 0-19-772538-4; 1-280-45346-X; 1-4237-4102-1; 0-19-535486-9; 1-60256-169-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783367303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II