Transforming Chinese American Literature
A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
©2000
Monographs
X,
204 Pages
Series:
Modern American Literature, Volume 20
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- X, 204
- Publication Year
- 2000
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820440965
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- culture mythology autobiography
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. X, 204 pp.