Filthy Fictions - Asian American Literature by Women

Informationen zum Autor By Monica Chiu Klappentext Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about 'Asian American' and 'dirt' through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, the book discusses critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies around the topic of identity (re)production and transnational representation. Zusammenfassung Addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about Asian American and dirt through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders! but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Pejorative Matter 2 Abjection, Displacement, and Psychological Dissonance in Crossings 3 Kamani's Crass, Classed, and Incurable Female Bodies 4 Animals and Systems of Dirt in the Works of Lois-Ann Yamanaka 5 Inside the Meat Machine: Food, Filth, and (In)Fertility in My Year of Meats 6 Conclusion: Filth and Asian American Literary Criticism 7 References

Product details

• Authors: Monica Chiu
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780759104563
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-0456-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian; Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies