This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture
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This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: ''A City of Words''; ONE. Myths of Americanization; 1. America in the Heart: Political Desire in YounghillKang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada; 2. Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura; 3. Womens' Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee; TWO. Constructing Chinese American Ethnicity; 4. ''That Was China, That Was Their Fate'': Ethnicity andAgency in The Joy Luck Club; 5. Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese HeroicTradition; CODA. ''What We Should Become, What We Were''; Notes; Bibliography; Index
