Transforming Chinese American literature: a study of history, sexuality, and ethnicity

"Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orienta...

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Main Author: Chang, Joan Chiung-huei (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY [u.a.] Lang 2000
Series:Modern American literature 20
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature
As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is."--BOOK JACKET
Item Description:In DNB, Reihe N, angekündigt u.d.T.: Mythopoetical discourse in Chinese American literature
Physical Description:X, 202 S.
ISBN:0820440965

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