Modern minority : Asian American literature and everyday life

著者

    • Lee, Yoon Sun

書誌事項

Modern minority : Asian American literature and everyday life

Yoon Sun Lee

Oxford University Press, c2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with the everyday. Lee argues that it is through the elements of the everyday, which she defines as the 'quantifiable' attention to familiar objects and 'quasi-statistical' repetitions of ordinary acts, that Asian American writers negotiate their vexed relationship to modernity. Lee draws on Lukacs, Jameson, de Certeau, and other cultural critics to show how portraits of the everyday articulate Asian American writers' participation in the project of literary realism. The study participates in a new trend in Asian American criticism that sees form as crucial to the construction of minorness. The book covers most of the 20th century and spans a range of Asian ethnic groups and literary styles. Authors examined include Carlos Bulosan, Lan Samantha Chang, Frank Chin, Ha Jin, Younghill Kang, Nora Okja Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, Chang-rae Lee, Mine Okubo, Monica Sone, Jade Snow Wong, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thi Diem Thuy Le, and Toshio Mori. The manuscript contributes a new direction in a field in which the criticism has been preoccupied with the politics of recognition and identity; it will interest scholars in Asian American, ethnic American, and American literary and cultural criticism.

目次

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Asian American Realism and the Forms of Everyday Minorness
  • Part I: Discovering the Modern Everyday
  • Chapter One
  • The Outward Spiral: Kang and Bulosan Ignore the Everyday
  • Chapter Two
  • Little Things: The Uncanny Everyday of Internment Literature
  • Part II: The Problem of Identity
  • Chapter Three
  • Unlikely Daughters, Exemplary Mothers, and Disembedded Chinamen: Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Chapter Four
  • The Changing Story of Thingness: From Kogawa and Keller to Ha Jin and Lan Samantha Chang
  • Part III: Everyday Immanence
  • Chapter Five
  • Lists, Native Speaker, and the Politics of Emergence
  • Chapter Six
  • Extensive Time and Crumpled Surfaces: Projects of Identity
  • in Frank Chin and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
  • Conclusion
  • Encountering Modernity Every Day

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