Race & resistance literature & politics in Asian America
Title:
Race & resistance literature & politics in Asian America
Author:
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-
ISBN:
9780198033585
9780195146998
9780195147001
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 228 p.) : ill.
Series:
Race and American culture
Race and American culture.
Contents:
On the origins of Asian American literature : the Eaton sisters and the hybrid body -- Wounded bodies and the Cold War : freedom, materialism, and revolution in Asian American literature, 1946-1957 -- The remasculinization of Chinese America : race, violence, and the novel -- Representing reconciliation : Le Ly Hayslip and the emblematic victim -- Queer bodies and subaltern spectators : guerrilla theater, Hollywood melodrama, and the Filipino (American) novel.
Abstract:
Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.
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Electronic Access:
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