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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 CONTENTS 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10 FOREWORD 12 INTRODUCTION 22 1. The Ambivalent American: Asian American Literature on the Cusp 30 2. Versions of Identity in Post-Activist Asian American Poetry 50 3. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile 66 4. Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature 96 5. Witnessing the Japanese Canadian Experience in World War II: Processual Structure, Symbolism, and Irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan 114 6. Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in Chinese Immigrant Literature 126 7. Rebels and Heroines: Subversive Narratives in the Stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto 146 8. Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea 166 9. "Don't Tell": Imposed Silences in The Color Purple and The Woman Warrior 178 10. Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men 206 11. Sense of Place, History, and the Concept of the "Local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures 228 12. Momotaro's Exile: John Okada's No-No Boy 252 13. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature 272 14. From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Lim, Shirley; Ling, Amy
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780877229353
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science, History
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