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Author:

Davis, Roc©Ưo G.

Title:

Begin here : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood / Roc©Ưo G. Davis.

Publisher:

University of Hawai'i Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Asian Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Asians--Canada--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Asian American children--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Children--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Children--Canada--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature
Children in literature
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
Asians--Canada--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.

Contents:

To begin here -- The Asian childhood : writing beginnings -- Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure -- The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position -- Citizens or denizens : inscribing the tropes of Asian North Americanization -- In North America : formulating experience -- The childhood for children : the cultural experience of the early reader -- Conclusion : rewriting the childhood.

ISBN:

9780824830922 (cloth : acid-free paper)
082483092X (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70630389

LCCN:

2006022571

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)