Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing
Title:
Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Rocío G. Davis and Sue-Im Lee.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)
ISBN:
9781592133666
9781592133642
9781592133659
Abstract:
Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing 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. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the ""ethnic"" and the ""aesthetic"" in Asian American literary criticism, the eleven original essays in this volume provide theoretically sophisticated and formally sensitive readings of works in prose, poetry, and drama. These contributions bring discussions of genre, canonicity, narrative, and literary.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the aesthetic in Asian American literary discourse / Sue-Im Lee -- Asian American critical discourse in Academia. Autonomy and representation : aesthetics and the crisis of Asian American cultural politics in the controversy over Blu's hanging / Mark Chiang ; Interventing innocence : race, 'resistance, ' and the Asian North American avant-garde / Iyko Day -- Aesthetics and ethnicity. The Asian American in a turtleneck : fusing the aesthetic and the didactic in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey / Mita Banerjee ; The language of ethnicity : John Yau's poetry and the ethnic/aesthetic divide / Christina Mar ; "A flame against a sleeping lake of petrol" : form and the sympathetic witness in Selvadurai's Funny boy and Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Patricia P. Chu ; Poignant pleasures : feminist ethics as aesthetics in Juhmpa Lahiri and Naita Rao Badami / Gita Rajan -- Intertexts : Asian American writing and literary movements. "A loose horse" : Asian American poetry and the aesthetics of the ideogram / Josephine Nock-Hee Park ; "A new rule for the imagination" : rewriting modernism in Bone / Donatella Izzo -- Rewriting form, reading for new expression. Performing dialogic subjectivities : the aesthetic project of autobiographical collaboration in Days and nights in Calcutta / Rocío G. Davis ; Bicultural world creation : Laurence Yep, Cynthia Kadohata, and Asian American fantasy / Celestine Woo ; Dismantling the realist character in Velina Hasu Houston's Tea and David Henry Hwang's FOB / Kimberly M. Jew.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.