Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing: International Encounters

ISBN-13: 9780415809016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str.

Helena Grice

Opis

The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently become the subject of intense American cultural scrutiny, namely China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath; the Korean American war and its legacy; the era of Japanese geisha culture and its subsequent decline; and China's one-child policy and the rise of transracial, international adoption in its wake. Grice examines and accounts for this cultural and literary preoccupation, exploring the corresponding historical-political situations that have both circumscribed and enabled greater cultural and political contact between Asia and America.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  1. Reading Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing: International Encounters  2. "The Escape from Asia Tradition": Cultural Revolution Expatriate Memoirs  3. Contemporary Transracial Adoption Narratives: Prospects and Perspectives  4. A Secret History: American Representations of Geisha Society  5. Korean Expatriate Writing and the History of the Korean Peninsula.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Helena Grice is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and is the author of Negotiating Identities and Maxine Hong Kingston.