ISBN:
9781137441775
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Print version Cheung, King-Kok Chinese American Literature without Borders : Gender, Genre, and Form
DDC:
305.3
Schlagwort(e):
Oriental literature
Kurzfassung:
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Theoretical Crosscurrents -- Effacing Boundaries -- Beyond Orientalism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: Gender -- Chapter 2: (S)wordswoman versus (S)wordsman: Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin -- Stereotypes and Reverse Stereotypes -- Gender and Genre -- Gender-Bending -- Heroism, Real and Fake -- Redefinition of Heroism -- Multicultural Literacy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Manhood Besieged: Gus Lee and David Wong Louie -- Desexualization of Asian (American) Men in the Popular Media -- Wu's Ascendancy over Wen in Gus Lee's China Boy -- Deflated Wenren in David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love -- "One Man's Hysteria-Real and Imagined-in the Twentieth Century" -- "The Movers" -- "Pangs of Love" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Masculine Mystique: Xu Zhimo 徐志摩, Younghill Kang, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, and Anchee Min -- A Modernist Wenren -- Younghill Kang's East Goes West -- Pang-Mei Natasha Chang's Bound Feet and Western Dress -- Anchee Min's Pearl of China -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Art, Spirituality, and Ren or the Ethics of Care: Shawn Wong, Li-Young Lee, and Russell C. Leong -- American Knees2 -- The Winged Seed -- "Phoenix Eyes" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Genre and Form -- Chapter 6: In(ter)dependence in Chinese/American Life-Writing: Liang Qichao 梁启 , Hu Shi , Shen Congwen 沈从文, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Poy Lee, and Ruthanne Lum McCunn -- Interdependent Self, Genre Fusion, and Maternal Legacy -- Sociohistorical Contextualization and Ethnic Subjectivity -- Bicultural Literacy as a Solution to Critical Conundrums -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Theorizing in Narrative Form: Bing Xin 冰心 -- Commodification as Chinoiserie and as Affective Labor -- Racist Love -- Contesting Epistemologies -- Subversion of the Master's Tool
Kurzfassung:
"The Photograph" as Sinophone Asian American Literature -- International Adoption -- Gendered Reception -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: (Im)migrant Writing, Moving Homelands: Ha Jin 哈 -- The Chinese Writer as Migrant -- A Free Life as Chinese American Pastoral -- The Nation-State and the Individual -- Survival and Transpacific Materialism -- Linguistic Deterritorialization and Tripartite Solitude -- Concurrent Homelands -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: Slanted Allusions: Marilyn Chin and Russell C. Leong -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Coda -- Note -- Index
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