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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey F. L. Partridge has taught Asian American literature at the National University of Singapore, Central Connecticut State University, and the University of Connecticut. He currently coordinates the Liberal Arts and Sciences program for Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. Klappentext The phenomenon of Â"literary ChinatownÂ"--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. Partridge examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature and the challenges to these expectations posed by recent Chinese American texts, challenges that push our understanding of a multicultural society to new horizons. Zusammenfassung The phenomenon of 'literary Chinatown' - the ghettoization of Chinese American literature - was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. This book examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Horizons Part One | Literary Chinatown and the Reader's Horizon 1. Literary Chinatown: Dynamics of Race and Reading 2. What Is an Ethnic Author? Part Two | Exceeding the Margins 3. The Politics of Ethnic Authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the Banquet Table 4. Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and Gold Part Three | Change and the Phenomenology of Reading 5. Changing Signifiers and Changing Horizons: Baseball in Three Stories by David Wong Louie 6. Change and the Playful Reader: Reading Shawn Wong's American Knees Part Four | Reading New Horizons 7. Beyond Multicultural: Cultural Hybridity in the Novels of Gish Jen Conclusion: The Emergence of the Polycultural Notes Bibliography Index ...
