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OverviewThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling’s presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field’s interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book’s Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and its cross-cutting relationship with the trends in other disciplines. What has emerged and been given prominence to in the surveys and discussions of this book then constitute the essential criticism of Asian American literary studies, a discourse almost 5 decades in the making when examined retrospectively. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jinqi Ling (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350336018ISBN 10: 1350336017 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 17 November 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJinqi Ling is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature and Across Meridians: History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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