Song The Children of 1965

On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7894-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Song, Min Hyoung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. "We All Have Our Reasons" 1

Part I. Impositions of Form

1. Theorizing Expectations 29

2. The Trope of the Lost Manuscript 59

3. Not Ethnic Literature 81

4. American Personhood 104

Part II. Lines of Flight

5. Comics and the Changing Meaning of Race 127

6. Allegory and the Child in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction 152

7. Becoming Planetary 179

8. Desert–Orient–Nomad 197

Conclusion. World-Making 220

Acknowledgments 239

Appendix. Contemporary Asian American Literature 101 241

Notes 245

Works Cited 261

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Min Hyoung Song is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies.