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7+ YearsPublisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780195111163 |
ISBN 10 | 0195111168 |
Book Subtitle | Ideology And Form In Asian American Literature |
Book Description | This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of postwar Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian Americ |
Language | English |
Author | Jinqi Ling |
Publication Date | 5-Mar-10 |
Number of Pages | 228 |
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