Asian American Literature

by Jinqi Ling

Book Overview

This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350336017
• ISBN13: 9781350336018
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages