Americas of Asian American Literature
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American studies
Americans
Asia-Pacific
Asian American literature
Asian American studies
Asian Americans
Asian studies
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Colonialism
Colonization
Criticism
Cultural imperialism
Cultural nationalism
Culture of the United States
Dogeaters
Effeminacy
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Eroticism
Exclusion
Femininity
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist literary criticism
Filipinos
Gender
Gender role
Globalization
Heterosexism
Homosociality
Household
Ideology
Immigration
Imperialism
Institution
Kinship
Laborer
Late capitalism
Literary criticism
Literature
Male privilege
Masculinity
Masculism
Mestizo
Narration
Narrative
Nation state
National identity
Naturalization
Objectification
Oppression
Parody
Patriarchy
Patriotism
Politics
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Publication
Racism
Radicalism (historical)
Sexism
Spouse
Subjectivity
Suggestion
The Erotic
The Other Hand
Third World
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Transnationalism
United States
Wealth
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691059617
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based political commitments--whether these are construed as national or global--in their readings of Asian American texts. This has constrained the intelligibility of stories that are focused less on ethnicity than on kinship, family dynamics, eroticism, and gender roles. In response, Lee makes a case for a reconceptualized Asian American criticism that centrally features gender and sexuality. Through a critical analysis of select literary texts--novels by Carlos Bulosan, Gish Jen, Jessica Hagedorn, and Karen Yamashita--Lee probes the specific ways in which some Asian American authors have steered around ethnic themes with alternative tales circulating around gender and sexual identity. Lee makes it clear that what has been missing from current debates has been an analysis of the complex ways in which gender mediates questions of both national belonging and international migration.
From anti-miscegenation legislation in the early twentieth century to poststructuralist theories of language to Third World feminist theory to critical studies of global cultural and economic flows, The Americas of Asian American Literature takes up pressing cultural and literary questions and points to a new direction in literary criticism.
Rachel C. Lee is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
