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The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives / / Eleanor Ty



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Autore: Ty Eleanor Rose <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives / / Eleanor Ty Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004
©2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.540809895071
Soggetto topico: Canadian prose literature - Asian authors - History and criticism
American prose literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism
Politics and literature - North America
Asians - Canada - Intellectual life
Asian Americans - Intellectual life
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans in motion pictures
Asians in motion pictures
Asians in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Soggetto geografico: Asiaten
USA
Kanada
Canada
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Visuality, Representation, and the Gaze -- Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children -- A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor -- Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness -- Transformations Through the Sensual -- To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces -- 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife -- 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony -- Invisible Minorities in Asian America -- 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept -- 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms -- 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country.
Sommario/riassunto: Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks, ' their shared physical features marking them legally, socially, and culturally as visible outsiders, and paradoxically, as invisible to mainstream history and culture. Ty argues that writers such as Denise Chong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Wayson Choy recast the marks of their bodies and challenge common perceptions of difference based on the sights, smells, dress, and other characteristics of their hyphenated lives. Others, like filmmaker Mina Shum and writers Bienvenido Santos and Hiromi Goto, challenge the means by which Asian North American subjects are represented and constructed in the media and in everyday language. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.
Titolo autorizzato: The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4426-3875-3
0-8020-8604-7
1-281-99474-X
9786611994747
1-4426-8212-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813068303321
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