Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature

by Jinqi Ling

This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-WWII Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195111168
• ISBN13: 9780195111163
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"