Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return

Title:

Author:

Chu, Patricia P., author.

ISBN:

9781439902271

Personal Author:

Chu, Patricia P., author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages).

Series:

Asian American history & culture

Asian American history and culture.

Contents:

Introduction -- "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity -- Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children -- Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain -- "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.

Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.

Memory in literature.

Melancholy in literature.

Homeland in literature.

Return in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.