Jeffrey F L Partridge

Beyond Literary Chinatown

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Produktbeschreibung

The phenomenon of Â"literary ChinatownÂ"--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. Partridge examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature and the challenges to these expectations posed by recent Chinese American texts, challenges that push our understanding of a multicultural society to new horizons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 158mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780295987064
• ISBN-10: 0295987065
• Artikelnr.: 22579028

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey F. L. Partridge has taught Asian American literature at the National University of Singapore, Central Connecticut State University, and the University of Connecticut. He currently coordinates the Liberal Arts and Sciences program for Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reading Horizons
Part One Literary Chinatown and the Reader's Horizon
1. Literary Chinatown: Dynamics of Race and Reading
2. What Is an Ethnic Author?
Part Two Exceeding the Margins
3. The Politics of Ethnic Authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at
the Banquet Table
4. Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and Gold
Part Three Change and the Phenomenology of Reading
5. Changing Signifiers and Changing Horizons: Baseball in Three Stories by
David Wong Louie
6. Change and the Playful Reader: Reading Shawn Wong's American Knees
Part Four Reading New Horizons
7. Beyond Multicultural: Cultural Hybridity in the Novels of Gish Jen
Conclusion: The Emergence of the Polycultural
Notes
Bibliography
Index