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The Ghosts Within - Literary Imaginations of Asian America

English · Paperback / Softback

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The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.

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Janna Odabas, born in 1984, completed the program of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2014, she received the Young Scholar Excellence Award of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA). Her work focuses on questions of identity and migration.

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Authors Janna Odabas
Publisher Transcript
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.11.2018
 
EAN 9783837644494
ISBN 978-3-8376-4449-4
No. of pages 264
Dimensions 149 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
Weight 444 g
Series Lettre
Lettre
Lettre (COL)
Subject Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)

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