An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the constru...

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1. Verfasser:	Davis, Rocío G. 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 2007
Schlagworte:	Autobiografie Asiatischer Einwanderer Kind > Motiv USA Asian Americans / Biography / History and criticism Asians / Canada / Biography / History and criticism Asian American children / Biography / History and criticism Children / Biography / History and criticism / United States Children / Biography / History and criticism / Canada Autobiography / Asian American authors Asian Americans in literature Children in literature Asian Americans / Social conditions Asians / Canada / Social conditions Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative potential of national experiences. This understanding influences theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative techniques and genre and raising complex questions about self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others To begin here -- The Asian childhood : writing4801 beginnings -- Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure -- The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position -- Citizens/denizens : inscribing the tropes of Asian North Americanization -- In North America : formulating experience -- The childhood for children : the cultural experience of the early reader -- Conclusion : rewriting the childhood
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (S.207-222) and index
Beschreibung:	XII, 234 Seiten 23,5 cm
ISBN:	9780824830922 082483092X