Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi
| Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/895 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
ZhouXiaojing <1952-> |
| Collana | The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans - Intellectual life American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-295-80230-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing -- |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461027103321 |
| Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi
| Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/895 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
ZhouXiaojing <1952-> |
| Collana | The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans - Intellectual life American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-295-80230-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing -- |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797857803321 |
| Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi
| Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature / edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/895 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
ZhouXiaojing <1952-> |
| Collana | The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans - Intellectual life American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9780295802305
0295802308 |
| Classificazione | HU 1729 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing -- |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910957845603321 |
| Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White women in racialized spaces [[electronic resource] ] : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth
| White women in racialized spaces [[electronic resource] ] : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/352042 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
SrikanthRajini |
| Collana | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Women, White, in literature Women and literature - United States Ethics in literature Race in literature Women, White |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-7914-8808-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""WHITE WOMEN IN RACIALIZED SPACES: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: ELIZABETH AMMONS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: SAMINA NAJMI AND RAJINI SRIKANTH""; ""2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain""; ""3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodwardand Manjit Basuta Cases""; ""4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt""; ""5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy""
""6. Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?: Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don""""7. "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's My Contraband and M.L.""; ""8. Getting in Touch with the True South: Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee""; ""9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp"" ""10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the Other""""11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire""; ""12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat""; ""13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travelers in Egypt""; ""14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index of Names""; " ""Index of Terms"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462119603321 |
| Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White women in racialized spaces [[electronic resource] ] : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth
| White women in racialized spaces [[electronic resource] ] : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/352042 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
SrikanthRajini |
| Collana | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Women, White, in literature Women and literature - United States Ethics in literature Race in literature Women, White |
| ISBN | 0-7914-8808-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""WHITE WOMEN IN RACIALIZED SPACES: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: ELIZABETH AMMONS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: SAMINA NAJMI AND RAJINI SRIKANTH""; ""2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain""; ""3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodwardand Manjit Basuta Cases""; ""4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt""; ""5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy""
""6. Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?: Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don""""7. "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's My Contraband and M.L.""; ""8. Getting in Touch with the True South: Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee""; ""9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp"" ""10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the Other""""11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire""; ""12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat""; ""13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travelers in Egypt""; ""14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index of Names""; " ""Index of Terms"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785563603321 |
| Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth
| White women in racialized spaces : imaginative transformation and ethical action in literature / / edited by Samina Najmi and Rajini Srikanth |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/352042 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
NajmiSamina
SrikanthRajini |
| Collana | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Women, White, in literature Women and literature - United States Ethics in literature Race in literature Women, White |
| ISBN |
9780791488089
079148808X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""WHITE WOMEN IN RACIALIZED SPACES: Imaginative Transformation and Ethical Action in Literature""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: ELIZABETH AMMONS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction: SAMINA NAJMI AND RAJINI SRIKANTH""; ""2. South Asians and the Complex Interstices of Whiteness: Negotiating Public Sentiment in the United States and Britain""; ""3. Whiteness and Soap-Opera Justice: Comparing the Louise Woodwardand Manjit Basuta Cases""; ""4. Mother Teresa as the Mirror of Bourgeois Guilt""; ""5. Ventriloquism in the Captivity Narrative: White Women Challenge European American Patriarchy""
""6. Those Indians Are Great Thieves, I Suppose?: Historicizing the White Woman in The Squatter and the Don""""7. "Let Me Play Desdemona": White Heroines and Interracial Desire in Louisa May Alcott's My Contraband and M.L.""; ""8. Getting in Touch with the True South: Pet Negroes, White Crackers, and Racial Staging in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee""; ""9. Prison, Perversion, and Pimps: The White Temptress in The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Iceberg Slim's Pimp"" ""10. Subject Positions in Elizabeth Bishop's Representations of Whiteness and the Other""""11. How Can a White Woman Love a Black Woman?: The Anglo-Boer War and Possibilities of Desire""; ""12. From Betrayal to Inclusion: The Work of the White Woman's Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat""; ""13. The Imperial Feminine: Victorian Women Travelers in Egypt""; ""14. Chinese Coolies, Hidden Perfume, and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Anna Leonowens's: The Romance of the Harem""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index of Names""; " ""Index of Terms"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910972228903321 |
| Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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