Mobile Homes: Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415975872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 128 str.

Su-Ching Huang

Opis

The history and significance of Asian migration in North America are distinctive from those of European immigrants and their descendants. European Americans, in general, have enjoyed more geographical, cultural, and socio-economic mobility than Asian Americans. Physical mobility for the former group is closely linked to status but often signals economic and cultural barriers for the latter. Exploring the works of Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada and Toshio Mori, this book highlights the significance of travelling in the Asian American experience, and demonstrates how heterogeneous Asian America has always been.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Mutual Authentication of the Silent Traveller and the American Landscape  2. Female Nomadology  3. Gastronomic Mobility and Model Minority  4. Transnationality, Heterogeneity, and Spatial Negotiation in Asian American Fiction.  Works Cited.  Works Consulted.

O autorze

Assistant Professor of English at National Taiwan University, Su-Ching Huang serves as Editor-in-chief of Chung Wai Literary Monthly, a Chinese-language scholarly journal based in Taiwan. She has taught at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, Rochester Institute of Technology, and University of Rochester. She has published essays on the Chinese American travel writer Chiang Yee and feminist theatre.