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The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives / Eleanor Ty.

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Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In var...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Ty, Eleanor
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Subjects:
American prose literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asians > Canada > Intellectual life.
Canadian prose literature > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature
Asian Americans > Intellectual life
Asians > Intellectual life
Canada
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • PART I: VISUALITY, REPRESENTATION, AND THE GAZE
  • 1. Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children
  • 2. A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
  • 3. Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness
  • PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS THROUGH THE SENSUAL
  • 4. To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces
  • 5. 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
  • 6. 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
  • PART III: INVISIBLE MINORITIES IN ASIAN AMERICA
  • 7. 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
  • 8. 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms
  • 9. 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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