Literary gestures : the aesthetic in Asian American writing /
Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the ""et...
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Temple University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the aesthetic in Asian American literary discourse / Sue-Im Lee
- Asian American critical discourse in Academia. Autonomy and representation : aesthetics and the crisis of Asian American cultural politics in the controversy over Blu's hanging / Mark Chiang ; Interventing innocence : race, 'resistance, ' and the Asian North American avant-garde / Iyko Day
- Aesthetics and ethnicity. The Asian American in a turtleneck : fusing the aesthetic and the didactic in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey / Mita Banerjee ; The language of ethnicity : John Yau's poetry and the ethnic/aesthetic divide / Christina Mar ; "A flame against a sleeping lake of petrol" : form and the sympathetic witness in Selvadurai's Funny boy and Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Patricia P. Chu ; Poignant pleasures : feminist ethics as aesthetics in Juhmpa Lahiri and Naita Rao Badami / Gita Rajan
- Intertexts : Asian American writing and literary movements. "A loose horse" : Asian American poetry and the aesthetics of the ideogram / Josephine Nock-Hee Park ; "A new rule for the imagination" : rewriting modernism in Bone / Donatella Izzo
- Rewriting form, reading for new expression. Performing dialogic subjectivities : the aesthetic project of autobiographical collaboration in Days and nights in Calcutta / Rocío G. Davis ; Bicultural world creation : Laurence Yep, Cynthia Kadohata, and Asian American fantasy / Celestine Woo ; Dismantling the realist character in Velina Hasu Houston's Tea and David Henry Hwang's FOB / Kimberly M. Jew.