Reading Asian American Literature : from necessity to extravagance.

Reading Asian American Literature : from necessity to extravagance.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (269 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism. Asian Americans -- Intellectual life. Ethnic relations in literature. Asian Americans in literature. American literature -- Asian American authors. Asian Americans in literature. Asian Americans -- Intellectual life. Ethnic relations in literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246329

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ISBN:	9781400821068 1400821061
Notes:	Print version record.
Summary:	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" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau.
Other form:	Print version: Wong, Sau-ling Cynthia. Reading Asian American Literature : From Necessity to Extravagance. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001 9780691015415

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Constructing an Asian American Textual Coalition
Ch. 1. Big Eaters, Treat Lovers, "Food Prostitutes," "Food Pornographers," and Doughnut Makers
Ch. 2. Encounters with the Racial Shadow
Ch. 3. The Politics of Mobility
Ch. 4. The Asian American Homo Ludens: Work, Play, and Art
Notes
Works Cited
Index