Modern Minority - Asian American Literature and Everyday Life

Zusatztext Yoon Lee has produced an ambitious and brilliant conceptualization of Asian American literature. This book models a breakthrough, expansive set of arguments for what ethnic literature can do, what it sees, and what it secretly longs for. Modern Minority is the work of Asian American literary criticism and theory we have been waiting for. Informationen zum Autor Yoon Sun Lee is Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle (Oxford UP, 2004). Klappentext Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life. Zusammenfassung Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction Asian American Realism and the Forms of Everyday Minorness Part I: Discovering the Modern Everyday Chapter One The Outward Spiral: Kang and Bulosan Ignore the Everyday Chapter Two Little Things: The Uncanny Everyday of Internment Literature Part II: The Problem of Identity Chapter Three Unlikely Daughters, Exemplary Mothers, and Disembedded Chinamen: Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston Chapter Four The Changing Story of Thingness: From Kogawa and Keller to Ha Jin and Lan Samantha Chang Part III: Everyday Immanence Chapter Five Lists, Native Speaker, and the Politics of Emergence Chapter Six Extensive Time and Crumpled Surfaces: Projects of Identity in Frank Chin and Lois-Ann Yamanaka Conclusion Encountering Modernity Every Day

Product details

• Authors: Yoon Sun Lee, Yoon Sun (Professor of English Lee, Lee Yoon Sun
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2013
• EAN: 9780199915835
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991583-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies