Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bascara, Victor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Leading scholars provide illuminating and engaging perspectives on a long neglected, yet incredibly eventful, period (1930-1965) of Asian American literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108880756
• Artikelnr.: 66183453

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' introduction; Part I. Transitions Approached through Concepts and
History: 1. The popular front and Asiatic modes of cultural production
Steven Lee; 2. Asian American realism Arnold Pan; 3. On modernism,
decolonization, and Asian American literature in transition Victor Bascara;
4. The cultures of Japanese internment: a short history of 'funny' turns
Caroline Chung Simpson; 5. The 1947 partition, war, and internment: hidden
histories of migration and displacement in transnational Asia Kavita Daiya;
6. Cold War fiction: the flower drum song's political education Josephine
Nock-Hee Park; 7. Desert, island, ocean, swamp: Cold War ecologies and the
Asian American environment Erin Suzuki; Part II. Transitions Approached
through Authors, Texts, Concepts, and History: 8. Lin Yutang and the
invention of Asian America, 1949 Richard Jean So; 9. H. T. Tsiang against
the world Hua Hsu; 10. 'A congressman from India': Dalip Singh Saund in
Cold War America Manan Desai; 11. Younghill Kang, transpacific agent David
Roh; 12. Transition and obliteration: Jose Garcia Villa in the United
States Jonathan Chua; 13. America is in the heart as postcolonial pastoral:
an ecocritical case study of Carlos Bulosan Sarah D. Wald; 14. Bienvenido
Santos: writing the interstitial spaces of Asian American literature
Cynthia Tolentino; 15. Women writing war in Asia/America Sze Wei Ang; 16.
Japanese incarceration, settler colonialism Sarah Dowling; 17. Jade Snow
Wong and the making of model minority democracy Cindy I-Fen Cheng; 18. A
little bit of form goes a long way: no-no boy and the ruse of empire Elda
Tsou; 19. Richard Eun-kook Kim James Kyung-Jin Lee.