Scrutinized! - Surveillance in Asian North American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Monica Chiu is associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. Klappentext Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels' fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny. Zusammenfassung Monica Chiu reveals how Asian North American novels’ fascination with mystery, detection, spying, and surveillance is a literary response to anxieties over race. According to Chiu, this allegiance to a genre that takes interruptions to social norms as its foundation speaks to a state of unease at a time of racial scrutiny.

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• Authors: Monica Chiu
• Assisted by: Russell Leong (Editor), David K Yoo (Editor), David K. Yoo (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780824838423
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3842-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies; Intersections: Asian and Pacif; Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies