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Maxine Hong Kingston
ISBN: 9780719064036 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- writers in the Asian American literary tradition. In this volume Grice traces Kingston's development as a writer and cultural activist through both ethnic and feminist discourses, investigating her novels, occasional writings and her two-book 'life-writing project'.
The publication of The Woman Warrior not only propelled Kingston into the mainstream literary limelight, but also precipitated a vicious and ongoing controversy in Asian American... Since the publication of The Woman Warrior in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston has gained a reputation as one of the most popular -- and controversial -- wr...
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
ISBN: 9780674298170 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,11 |
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Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers
ISBN: 9780824822163 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this age of rapid transition, Asian American studies and American studies in general are being reconfigured to reflect global migrations and the diverse populations of the United States. Asian American literature, in particular, has embodied the crisis of identity that is at the heart of larger academic and political debates surrounding diversity and the inclusion and exclusion of immigrant and refugee groups. These issues underlie the very principles on which literature, culture, and art are produced, preserved, taught, and critiqued. Words Matter is the first collection of... In this age of rapid transition, Asian American studies and American studies in general are being reconfigured to reflect global migrations and the... |
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Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
ISBN: 9781592133659 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form.
Contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of ...
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109,45 |
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Asian American Women's Popular Literature: Feminizing Genres and Neoliberal Belonging
ISBN: 9781439910191 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These crossover books mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing attempt to bridge ethnic audiences and a broader reading public. In "Asian American Women's Popular Literature, " Pamela Thoma considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging.Novels such as Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan s "China Dolls" and...
Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early...
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109,45 |
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Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing
ISBN: 9781439903186 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their model minority status and the contested nature of citizenship.
In fiction and nonfiction, Asian Americans and Jewish Americans grapple with their model minority status and the contested nature of citizenship.
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109,45 |
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East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America
ISBN: 9781439905876 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the interwar years, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen Kuo's provocative East Is West and West Is East looks closely at these global shifts to modernity. In her analysis of five forgotten texts - the 1930 film East Is West, Frank Capra's 1937 version of Lost Horizon and its 1973 remake; Younghill Kang's novel East Goes West; and Baroness Ishimoto's memoir/manifesto, Facing Both Ways - Kuo elucidates how 'Asia' played a role in shaping American gender and racial identities and how Asian...
During the interwar years, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and n...
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The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art
ISBN: 9781439912270 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Asian American Avant-Garde "is the first book-length study that""conceptualizes a long-neglected canon of early Asian American literature and art. Audrey Wu Clark traces a genealogy of counter-universalism in short fiction, poetry, novels, and art produced by writers and artists of Asian descent who were responding to their contemporary period of Asian exclusion in the United States, between the years 1882 and 1945. Believing in the promise of an inclusive America, these avant-gardists critiqued racism as well as institutionalized art. Clark examines racial outsiders including Isamu... "The Asian American Avant-Garde "is the first book-length study that""conceptualizes a long-neglected canon of early Asian American literature and ... |
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Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
ISBN: 9780804741309 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the field. This book seeks to identify the forces behind this literary emergence and to explore both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined. The author is preoccupied with how the sense of the nation is disseminated through...
Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a...
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World Next Door: South Asian American Literature
ISBN: 9781592130818 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asks What is South Asian American writing and what insights can it offer us about living in the world at this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies?
Asks What is South Asian American writing and what insights can it offer us about living in the world at this particular moment of tense geopolitics a...
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114,43 |
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Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits
ISBN: 9781592134519 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian-American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian-American writers.
Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian-American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the ...
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114,43 |
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Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
ISBN: 9781439901786 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investigates the postwar cultural productions of writers and filmmakers, including Tony Bui, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Tran Anh Hung. Taking her cue from the double meaning of "collaborator," Duong shows how history has shaped the loyalties and shifting alliances of the Vietnamese, many of whom are caught between opposing/constricting forces of nationalism, patriarchy, and communism. Working at home and in France and the United States, the artists profiled...
Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investig...
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Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture
ISBN: 9781439907597 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief. Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event that ended in local political failure to one that succeeded in producing a vital dimension of contemporary transnational writing today. She spotlights key writers - Gao Xingjian, Ha Jin, Annie Wang,...
An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study ...
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114,43 |
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Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion
ISBN: 9781439911938 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Racial Feelings, "Jeffrey Santa Ana examines how Asian American narratives communicate and critiqueto varying degreesthe emotions that power the perception of Asians as racially different.
Santa Ana explores various forms of Asian American cultural production, ranging from literature and graphic narratives to film and advertising, to illuminate the connections between global economic relations and the emotions that shape aspirations for the good life. He illustrates his argument with examples including the destitute Filipino immigrant William Paulinha, in Han Ong s "Fixer Chao, "who... In "Racial Feelings, "Jeffrey Santa Ana examines how Asian American narratives communicate and critiqueto varying degreesthe emotions that power the p...
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Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire: A Politics of Intraracial Desire
ISBN: 9781439915820 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work creates a queer genealogy of Asian American literary criticism.
This work creates a queer genealogy of Asian American literary criticism.
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The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form
ISBN: 9781503612051 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,43 |
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Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions
ISBN: 9781503628007 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,43 |
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Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America
ISBN: 9781479834662 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,43 |
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John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
ISBN: 9780295743516 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,93 |
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Asian American Literature
ISBN: 9780748622726 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of the book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans...
This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bha...
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119,41 |
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