Chinese American Literature without Borders (eBook)

Gender, Genre, and Form

King-Kok Cheung (Autor)

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2017
326 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-44177-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers' formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the 'other' country and to look homeward without blinders.   

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. She is author of Articulate Silences and editor of Words Matter; An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature; 'Seventeen Syllables'; Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography; and coeditor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

 

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This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers' formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the "e;other"e; country and to look homeward without blinders.   

Inhalt

Table of Contents 

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I   Gender

1. (S)wordswoman versus (S)wordsman: Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin

2. Manhood Besieged: Gus Lee and David Wong Louie

3. Masculine Mystique: Xu Zhimo徐志摩, Younghill Kang, Pang-Mei Natasha Chang, and Anchee Min

4. Art, Spirituality, and Ren or the Ethic of Care: Shawn Wong, Li-young Lee, and Russell C. Leong 

Part II Genre and Form

5. In(ter)dependence in Chinese / American Life-Writing: Liang Qichao 梁启超, Hu Shi胡适, Shen Congwen沈从文, Maxine Hong Kingston, William Poy Lee, and Ruthanne Lum McCunn

6.“Theorizing in Narrative Form”: Bing Xin冰心

7. (Im)migrant Writing, Moving Homelands: Ha Jin 哈金

8. Slanted Allusions: Marilyn Chin and Russell C. Leong

 

Coda

Selected Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 326 p. 4 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: American ethnic literature • Asian American Literature • Autobiography • Biographical Fiction • Chinese American Literature • Life-Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-137-44177-1 / 1137441771
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-44177-5 / 9781137441775