This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways.
This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways.
Hyesu Park received her PhD in English from Ohio State University in 2014 and is currently an associate professor of English at Bellevue College, USA. In 2015 and 2016, she was a visiting professor at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research interests include American and Asian American literatures, narrative theory, media studies, and South Korean literature and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in Image & Narrative, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, and American Book Review. Her book publications include Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang and Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences (edited volume).
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Introduction: Inscrutability, Asian American narratives, and narrative theory Chapter 1: Representing the inscrutable memory of "comfort women" in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life (1999) Chapter 2: Scrutability for readerly recognition in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2003) Chapter 3: Visualizing Asian American inscrutability in Adrian Tomine's graphic novel, Shortcomings (2007) Chapter 4: Contextualizing the affect, ethics, and politics of female silence in Hisaye Yamamoto's short stories, "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Wilshire Bus" (1950) Chapter 5: Memorializing the inscrutable history of others: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and GB Tran's Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey (2010) Conclusion: Bridging the fields
Introduction: Inscrutability, Asian American narratives, and narrative theory Chapter 1: Representing the inscrutable memory of "comfort women" in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life (1999) Chapter 2: Scrutability for readerly recognition in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2003) Chapter 3: Visualizing Asian American inscrutability in Adrian Tomine's graphic novel, Shortcomings (2007) Chapter 4: Contextualizing the affect, ethics, and politics of female silence in Hisaye Yamamoto's short stories, "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Wilshire Bus" (1950) Chapter 5: Memorializing the inscrutable history of others: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and GB Tran's Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey (2010) Conclusion: Bridging the fields
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