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Author:   Jinqi Ling (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350336025

ISBN 10:   1350336025
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 November 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field Chapter One Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations --Centering Gender --Exploration of Sexuality --Essentialism and Difference --Race and Class Revisited Chapter Two The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America” --Cultural Nationalism --Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity --Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American Specificity Chapter Three Intercultural and Generational Concerns --Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation --Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation --Breaking the Tradition Chapter Four The Transnational Turn --Planetary Presence --The Asia-Pacific Investment --Cautions and Dissonances --Locating the Historical Referent Chapter Five The Social Function of Literature --Cognitive Uses of Language --Community-Based Self-Representation --Controversies --Debating Resistance Chapter Six Aesthetic Form --Form after New Criticism --Legacies and Practices --Reinventing Realist Genres --Poetic and Theatrical Studies Chapter Seven Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization --Reading Formations --Periodization --Methodological Challenge --Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight Emerging Interests --Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New Media Conclusion Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession Notes Bibliography Index

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Jinqi Ling is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the author of Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature and Across Meridians: History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Transnational Novels.

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