The interethnic imagination : roots and passages in contemporary Asian American fiction
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The interethnic imagination : roots and passages in contemporary Asian American fiction
（Imagining the Americas / Caroline F. Levander and Anthony B Pinn, series editors）
Oxford University Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures-in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications-a radical interaction has taken place that, during the last quarter of the twentieth century, has shifted our understanding of ethnicity away from 'ethnic in itself' to 'ethnic amidst a hybrid collective'. In light of this, Caroline Rody proposes a new paradigm for understanding the changing terrain of contemporary fiction. She claims that
what we have long read as ethnic literature is in the process of becoming 'interethnic'. Examining an extensive range of Asian American fictions, The Interethnic Imagination offers sustained readings of three especially compelling examples: Chang-rae Lee's ambivalent evocations of blackness,
whiteness, Koreanness, and the multicultural crowd in Native Speaker; Gish Jen's comic engagement with Jewishness in Mona in the Promised Land; and the transnational imagination of Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange. Two shorter "interchapters" and an epilogue extend the thematics of creative "in-betweenness" across the book's structure, elaborating crossover topics including Asian American fiction's complex engagement with African American culture; the cross-ethnic
adoption of Jewishness by Asian American writers; and the history of mixed-race Asian American fictional characters.
目次
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EPILOGUE: MIXED RACES, MIXED CHILDREN, MIXED OUTCOMES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
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