Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America : Chu, Patricia P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America : Chu, Patricia P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Assimilating Asians : gendered strategies of authorship in Asian America

by Chu, Patricia P

Publication date 2000

Topics American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism, American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism, National characteristics, American, in literature, Assimilation (Sociology) in literature, Women and literature -- United States, Asian American women in literature, Asian Americans in literature, Group identity in literature, Authorship -- Sex differences, Bildungsromans -- History and criticism

Publisher Durham, NC : Duke University Press

Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks

Digitizing sponsor The Arcadia Fund

Contributor Internet Archive

Language English

x, 241 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index

1. Introduction: "a city of words" 
2. -- America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada 
3. -- Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura 
4. -- Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee 
5. -- "That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club 
6. -- Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition 
7. - Coda: "What we should become, what we were"