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Asian American Fiction After 1965 - Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility

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Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.

List of contents

Introduction: Miracle Fiction?
1. Deep Conditions of the World: Modernization Theory and Transimperiality
2. Writing Like an Engineer: Postracial Form and Utopia
3. Shakespeare Words: Professional Identity and Literary Style
4. Genres of Deprofessionalization: Economic Subjectivity and Chinese American Women Writers
5. Enough? Semiperipheral Structures of Feeling in the Taiwanese American Novel
Conclusion: Asian Fetish
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christopher T. Fan is an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, in the Departments of English, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Studies. He is a cofounder and senior editor of Hyphen magazine.

Summary

Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia.

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