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Format: 1 online resource (xxiii, 242 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-316-37172-7 , 1-316-15501-3

Series Statement: Cambridge companions to literature

Content: The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting the development of Asian American literature. Written by a host of leading scholars in the field, this book provides insight into the representative movements, regional settings, archival resources and critical reception that define Asian American literature. Covering subjects from immigrant narratives and internment literature to contemporary race studies and the problem of translation, this Companion provides insight into the myriad traditions that have shaped the Asian American literary landscape.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). , Part I. Formations of Asian America: immigration, empire, law. Asian American literature within and beyond the immigrant narrative / , America's empire and the Asia-Pacific: constructing Hawai'i and the Philippines / , Adjudicating Asian America / , Part II. Asian American writing and the legacy of war. Writing the internment / , The literature of the Korean War and Vietnam War / , war on terror": post-9/11 south Asian and Arab American literature / , Part III. The extravagant of genre. Asian American drama / , Asian American poetry / , Model minority narratives and the Asian American family / , The writing of translation / , Popular genres and new media / , Toward a definition of diaspora literature / , Part IV. Identities and postidentities. Feminisms and queer interventions into Asian America / , Comparative race studies and interracialisms / , Rethinking embodiment and hybridity: mixed-race, adoptee, and disabled subjectiveness / , English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-09517-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-107-47914-2

Language: English