Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites And Transits Project Muse Upcc Books

Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally balanced mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality. Re-signed Subjects: Women, Work, And World In The Fiction Of Carlos Bulosan And Hisaye Yamamoto / Cheryl Higashida -- Just Another Ethnic Pol: Literary Citizenship In Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker / Liam Corley -- The Cartography Of Justice And Truthful Refractions Found In Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic Of Orange / Ruth Y. Hsu -- Valuing Transnational Queerness: Politicized Bodies Are Commodified Desires In Asian American Literature / Stephen Hong Sohn -- Ethical Responsibility In The Intersubjective Spaces: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter Of Maladies And A Temporary Matter / Gita Rajan -- Abjection, Masculinity, And Violence In Brian Roley's American Son And Hans Ong's Fixer Chao / Eleanor Ty -- Begin Here: A Critical Introduction To The Asian American Childhood / Rocío Davis -- The Poetics Of Liminality And Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton/s Me And Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Katherine Hyunmi Lee -- Nation, Immigrant, Text: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Srimati Mukherjee -- Kimiko's Hahn's Interlingual Poetics In Mosquito And Ant / Robert Grotjohn -- Composed Of Many Lengths Of Bone: Myung Mi Kim's Reimagination Of Image And Epic / Josephine Hock-hee Park -- A Way In The World Of An Asian American Existence: Agha Shahid Ali's Transimmigrant Spacing Of North America And India-kashmir / Maimuna Dali Islam -- Writing Otherwise Than As A Native Informant: Ha Jin's Poetry / Zhou Xiaojing. Edited By Shirley Geok-lin Lim ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is 'reading up.' Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers. Framed by an analysis of Hamilton Wright Mabie's role promoting the concept of reading up during his ten-year stint as the cultivator of literary taste for the highly popular Ladies' Home Journal, Reading Up reveals how readers flocked to literary works they would be expected to dislike. Blair shows that while readers could be led to certain books by a trusted adviser, they frequently followed their own path in interpreting them in unexpected ways."--Amazon.com Transnational Asian America: Literary Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally multivalent mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality.