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Author:   Hyesu Park (English, Arts & Humanities, Bellevue College)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367697198

ISBN 10:   036769719
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   30 November 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Inscrutability, Asian American narratives, and narrative theory Chapter 1: Representing the inscrutable memory of ""comfort women"" in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life (1999) Chapter 2: Scrutability for readerly recognition in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003) Chapter 3: Visualizing Asian American inscrutability in Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel, Shortcomings (2007) Chapter 4: Contextualizing the affect, ethics, and politics of female silence in Hisaye Yamamoto’s short stories, ""Seventeen Syllables"" (1949) and ""Wilshire Bus"" (1950) Chapter 5: Memorializing the inscrutable history of others: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and GB Tran’s Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey (2010) Conclusion: Bridging the fields"

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With Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives, Hyesu Park adds another important contribution to the growing conversation about race and narrative form. In her work unpacking the figure of the 'inscrutable Asian,' Park explores the various ways that rhetorical and cognitive approaches to narrative can help readers to better understand the cultural work of contemporary Asian American narratives, while also compellingly demonstrating the continued need to broaden the canon of narratives upon which new developments in narrative theory are built. James J. Donahue, SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, NY)

Author Information

Hyesu Park received her PhD in English from Ohio State University in 2014 and is currently an associate professor of English at Bellevue College, USA. In 2015 and 2016, she was a visiting professor at FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research interests include American and Asian American literatures, narrative theory, media studies, and South Korean literature and popular culture. Her articles have appeared in Image & Narrative, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, and American Book Review. Her book publications include Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang and Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences (edited volume).

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