TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joan Chiung-huei Chang
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Transforming Chinese American Literature
T2  - A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1090844
N2  - 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.
KW  - culture, mythology, autobiography
LA  - English
ER  -