Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance
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Book Overview
A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream"...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691015414
ISBN13:9780691015415
Release Date:July 1993
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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Written with care, concern, wit, and respect for texts.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Everything Sauling Wong writes she writes with care, concern, wit, tact, and an immense respect for literary texts. This study is a classic by now, and the more "transnational" work beyond it can only renew its relevance and care. No diasporic opportunism would find a home here in such close and caring readings of the US Asia/Pacific texts of worldliness and quest.
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