Begin here : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood /
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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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- To begin here
- The Asian childhood : writing beginnings
- Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure
- The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position
- Citizens or 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.