Transforming Chinese American Literature

A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

von Joan Chiung-huei Chang

204 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What is a Chinese American? A Chinese? An American? Or both? Or neither? These seemingly easy questions are hard to answer in terms of history, culture, ethnicity, and literature. In order to provide an answer to these questions, Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question «What is a Chinese American?» is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is.

• Reihe: Modern American Literature
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820440965
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2000
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York