Patricia P Chu

Assimilating Asians

Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Bringing fresh perspectives to much-discussed work, "Assimilating Asians" is a fine book."--Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324300
• ISBN-10: 082232430X
• Artikelnr.: 22433048

Autorenporträt

Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknoweldgments ix
Introduction: "A City of Words" 1
ONE. Myths of Americanization
1 America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan,
Milton Murayama, and John Okada 27
2 Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura 64
3 Womens' Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee 90
TWO/ Constructing Chinese American Ethinicity
4 "That Was China, That Was Their Fate": Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy
Luck Club 141
5 Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition 169
CODA. "What We Should Becomoe, What We Were" 188
Notes 191
Bibliography 217
Index 299