Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures /

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Author / Creator:Ma, Sheng-mei.
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998.
Description:ix, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3332081
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Varying Form of Title:Immigrant subjectivities
ISBN:0791438295 (hard. : alk. paper)
0791438309 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ideology and the Representation of Immigrant
  • Part 1.. The Representation of the Asian Other
  • 1.. Native Informants and Ethnographic Feminism in Asian American Texts
  • 2.. Orientalism in Chinese American Discourse: Body and Pidgin
  • 3.. Immigrant Schizophrenic in Asian Diaspora Literature
  • Part 2.. Immigrant Subjectivity through Eroticism
  • 4.. Interracial Eroticism in Asian American Literature: Male Subjectivity and White Bodies
  • 5.. Postcolonial Feminizing of America in Carlos Bulosan
  • Part 3.. Immigrant Self-Representation
  • 6.. Immigrant Subjectivities and Desires in Overseas Student Literature: Chinese, Postcolonial, or Minority Text?
  • 7.. An Island of Immigrants: Nativist Critique of Taiwan's Compradorism
  • 8.. Ang Lee's Domestic Tragicomedy: Immigrant Nostalgia, Exotic/Ethnic Tour, Global Market
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index