| Transforming Chinese American Literature: A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity Contributor(s): Hakutani, Yoshinobu (Editor), Chang, Joan Chiung-Huei (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820440965 ISBN-13: 9780820440965 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $92.53 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 98-54469 |
| Series: Modern American Literature |
| Physical Information: 204 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a Chinese American? A Chinese? An American? Or both? Or neither? These seemingly easy questions are hard to answer in terms of history, culture, ethnicity, and literature. In order to provide an answer to these questions, Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question What is a Chinese American? is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is. |