Semblance of Identity - Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

Zusatztext " The Semblance of Identity makes an impressive contribution to Asian American studies by providing a fresh look at the field's uneasy relationship with the 'identity politics' from which it was born. Lee offers an elegant, theoretically sophisticated picture of what 'post-identity' Asian American studies might look like." Informationen zum Autor Christopher Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext Christopher Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. Zusammenfassung This book examines how Asian American fiction reveals with the limitations of identity while continuing to rely on its theoretical logic as the basis of oppositional knowledge and political practices.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Lee, Lee Christopher
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2012
• EAN: 9780804778701
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7870-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Asian America; Asian America
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies