Assimilating Asians - Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America

"Bringing fresh perspectives to much-discussed work, "Assimilating Asians" is a fine book."--Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley

List of contents

Acknoweldgments ix

Introduction: "A City of Words" 1

ONE. Myths of Americanization

1 America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada 27

2 Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura 64

3 Womens' Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee 90

TWO/ Constructing Chinese American Ethinicity

4 "That Was China, That Was Their Fate": Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy Luck Club 141

5 Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition 169

CODA. "What We Should Becomoe, What We Were" 188

Notes 191

Bibliography 217

Index 299

About the author

Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia P Chu, Patricia P. Chu
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2000
• EAN: 9780822324652
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2465-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American