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Title:

Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing / edited by Rocío G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

vi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Aesthetics, American

Other Authors:

Davis, Rocío G.
Lee, Sue-Im, 1969-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the aesthetic in Asian American literary discourse / Sue-Im Lee -- Asian American critical discourse in Academia. Autonomy and representation : aesthetics and the crisis of Asian American cultural politics in the controversy over Blu's hanging / Mark Chiang ; Interventing innocence : race, 'resistance,' and the Asian North American avant-garde / Iyko Day -- Aesthetics and ethnicity. The Asian American in a turtleneck : fusing the aesthetic and the didactic in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey / Mita Banerjee ; The language of ethnicity : John Yau's poetry and the ethnic/aesthetic divide / Christina Mar ; "A flame against a sleeping lake of petrol" : form and the sympathetic witness in Selvadurai's Funny boy and Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Patricia P. Chu ; Poignant pleasures : feminist ethics as aesthetics in Juhmpa Lahiri and Naita Rao Badami / Gita Rajan -- Intertexts : Asian American writing and literary movements. "A loose horse" : Asian American poetry and the aesthetics of the ideogram / Josephine Nock-Hee Park ; "A new rule for the imagination" : rewriting modernism in Bone / Donatella Izzo -- Rewriting form, reading for new expression. Performing dialogic subjectivities : the aesthetic project of autobiographical collaboration in Days and nights in Calcutta / Rocío G. Davis ; Bicultural world creation : Laurence Yep, Cynthia Kadohata, and Asian American fantasy / Celestine Woo ; Dismantling the realist character in Velina Hasu Houston's Tea and David Henry Hwang's FOB / Kimberly M. Jew.

ISBN:

9781592133659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1592133657 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781592133642 (alk. paper)
1592133649 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61362237

LCCN:

2005053805

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)