Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index.
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Introduction / Harold Bloom -- South Asian American literature / Ketu H. Katrak -- Postcolonialism, nationalism, and the emergence of Asian/Pacific American literatures / Stephen H. Sumida -- Amy Tan and Asian American literature / E.D. Huntley -- Chinese American women writers : the tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Interpreter of maladies by jhumpa Lahiri / Purvi Shah -- Queer bodies and subaltern spectators : guerilla theatre, Hollywood melodrama and the Filipino (American) novel / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Vietnamese American literature in English, 1963-1994 / Michele Janette -- Introduction to Asian North American identities beyond the hyphen / Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht -- Asian Americans imagining Burma : Chang-Rae Lee's A gesture life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy tango / Cheng Lok Chua -- Long a mystery and forever a memory : god vs. goddess in the ethnic novel / Guiyou Huang -- Beyond multicultural : cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen / Jeffrey F.L Partridge.
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Presents critical perspectives on the works of Asian-American writers, including Gish Jen, Cheng-rae Lee, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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Asian-American writers.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- Asian American authors-- History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans-- Intellectual life.
American literature-- Asian American authors-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Asian American authors.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans-- Intellectual life.
Asian Americans-- Intellectual life.
Literatur.
littérature asiatico-américaine (Etats-Unis)-- 20e s.-- 21e s. (début), études diverses.