Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture

(Part of the Asian America Series)

by Tina Chen

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In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.

By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804751862

ISBN13:9780804751865

Release Date:August 2005

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

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