Helena Grice

Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing (eBook, ePUB)

International Encounters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the recent American cultural and literary preoccupation with Asia, exploring the corresponding historical-political situations - including China's Cultural Revolution and Japanese geisha culture - that have both circumscribed and enabled greater cultural and political contact between Asia and America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136604850
• Artikelnr.: 38269738

Autorenporträt

Helena Grice is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and is the author of Negotiating Identities and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. 1. Reading Asian American Fiction, History and Life
Writing: International Encounters 2. "The Escape from Asia Tradition":
Cultural Revolution Expatriate Memoirs 3. Contemporary Transracial Adoption
Narratives: Prospects and Perspectives 4. A Secret History: American
Representations of Geisha Society 5. Korean Expatriate Writing and the
History of the Korean Peninsula. Notes. Bibliography. Index