This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of postwar Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of
complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian American literary texts that simultaneously registers their rich specificity
and relatedness to works before and after.
- ISBN10 1423741021
- ISBN13 9781423741022
- Publish Date December 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English