The interethnic imagination : roots and passages in contemporary Asian American fiction
by
Rody, Caroline, 1960-
Title
:
The interethnic imagination : roots and passages in contemporary Asian American fiction
Author
:
Rody, Caroline, 1960-
ISBN
:
9780195377361
Personal Author
:
Rody, Caroline, 1960-
Publication Information
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
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xx, 196 p.
Series
:
Imagining the Americas
Series Title
:
Imagining the Americas
General Note
:
Formerly CIP.
Contents
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Ch. 1. The interethnic paradigm and the case of Asian American fiction -- Interchapter. Asian/African : black presences in Asian American fiction -- Ch. 2. "With darkness yet" : Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker, blackness, and the interethnic imagination -- Ch. 3. Letters from Camp Gugelstein : interethnicity and Jewishness in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land -- Interchapter. Cross-ethnic Jewishness in Asian American and other contemporary fiction -- Ch. 4. Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and the transnational, interethnic imagination -- Epilogue. Mixed races, mixed children, mixed outcomes.
Subject Term
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American fiction -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Cultural fusion in literature.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025523479 | 813.609895 R697.I 2009 | 1 |