Name: Transforming Chinese American Literature. A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity
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Author: Joan Chiung-Huei Chang
ISBN: 9780820440965

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Transforming Chinese American Literature. A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Author

Joan Chiung-Huei Chang

Collection

Modern American Literature

Year

2000

Pages

202

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

15.90 x 23.70 x 1.60 cm

ISBN13

9780820440965

Transforming Chinese American Literature. A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity

Joan Chiung-Huei Chang (Author) · Peter Lang Publishing Inc · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Transforming Chinese American Literature. A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity"

The books in the Modern American Literature: New Approaches series deal with many of the major writers known as American realists, modernists, and post-modernists from 1880 to the present. This category of writers will also include less known ethnic and minority writers, a majority of whom are African American, some are Native American, Mexican American, Japanese American, Chinese American, and others. (James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, John Barth, John Updike, and Joyce Carol Oates).

What is a Chinese American? A Chinese? An American? Or both? Or neither? These seemingly easy questions are hard to answer in terms of history, culture, ethnicity, and literature. In order to provide an answer to these questions, Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question «What is a Chinese American?» is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is.