Monica Chiu

Filthy Fictions

Asian American Literature by Women

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about "Asian American" and "dirt" through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, the book discusses critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies around the topic of identity (re)production and transnational representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780759104556
• ISBN-10: 0759104557
• Artikelnr.: 21068696

Autorenporträt

Monica Chiu is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, teaching courses in American literature, Asian American literature, Asian American film, and literature and the body. Her work has appeared in MELUS, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, the Journal of American Studies, and Mosaic.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Pejorative Matter
2 Abjection, Displacement, and Psychological Dissonance in Crossings
3 Kamani's Crass, Classed, and Incurable Female Bodies
4 Animals and Systems of Dirt in the Works of Lois-Ann Yamanaka
5 Inside the Meat Machine: Food, Filth, and (In)Fertility in My Year of
Meats
6 Conclusion: Filth and Asian American Literary Criticism
7 References