Min Hyoung Song

The Children of 1965

On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American

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Produktbeschreibung

Min Hyoung Song is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354383
• ISBN-10: 0822354381
• Artikelnr.: 36693779

Autorenporträt

Min Hyoung Song is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. "We All Have Our Reasons" 1
Part I. Impositions of Form
1. Theorizing Expectations 29
2. The Trope of the Lost Manuscript 59
3. Not Ethnic Literature 81
4. American Personhood 104
Part II. Lines of Flight
5. Comics and the Changing Meaning of Race 127
6. Allegory and the Child in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction 152
7. Becoming Planetary 179
8. Desert-Orient-Nomad 197
Conclusion. World-Making 220
Acknowledgments 239
Appendix. Contemporary Asian American Literature 101 241
Notes 245
Works Cited 261
Index 271