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Author:

Chiu, Monica, 1965- author.

Title:

Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature / Monica Chiu.

Publisher:

University of Hawaiʻi Pressin association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center Los Angeles,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

ix, 177 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism.
Detective and mystery stories, Canadian--History and criticism.
Race in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: under scrutiny -- Racial playgrounds: illusion and danger in Don Lee's Country of origin -- The conspicuous subjects of interracial spaces in Nina Revoyr's Southland -- Persistent vigilance and racial longing in Choi's Person of interest and Kim's The interpreter -- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field -- Double surveillance in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist -- Conclusion.

Series:

Intersections : Asian and Pacific American transcultural studies

ISBN:

0824838424 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780824838423 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857234312

LCCN:

2013031721

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)