Jinqi Ling

Asian American Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field's interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book's Introduction and Conclusion.

The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and its cross-cutting relationship with the trends in other disciplines. What has emerged and been given prominence to in the surveys and discussions of this book then constitute the essential criticism of Asian American literary studies, a discourse almost 5 decades in the making when examined retrospectively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350336032
• Artikelnr.: 65886763

Autorenporträt

Jinqi Ling is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature and Across Meridians: History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's Transnational Novels.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations
Centering Gender
Exploration of Sexuality
Essentialism and Difference
Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of "Asian America"
Cultural Nationalism
Beyond Pan
Asian Ethnicity
Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies
Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns
Writing Immigrants
Cultural Translation
Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation
Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn
Planetary Presence
The Asia
Pacific Investment
Cautions and Dissonances
Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature
Cognitive Uses of Language
Community
Based Self
Representation
Controversies
Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form
Form after New Criticism
Legacies and Practices
Reinventing Realist Genres
Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization
Reading Formations
Periodization
Methodological Challenge
Post
identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests
Food Studies
Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism
Speculative Literature
Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti
essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index