Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and TransitsShirley Lim Transnational Asian America: Literary Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature. The thirteen essays in this volume engage works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian American writers who move within and across national boundaries. With its emphasis on the transmigratory and flexible nature of Asian American literary production, the collection argues for an equally multivalent mode of criticism that extends our readings of these works beyond the traditional limits of the American literary canon. Individual chapters feature such writers as Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Ha Jin, with attention to such discourses as gender, space and mobility, transnationalism, identity, genre, and post-coloniality. |
Contents
Literary Citizenship | 55 |
The Cartography of Justice and Truthful Refractions | 75 |
Politicized | 100 |
Abjection Masculinity and Violence in Brian Roleys | 142 |
A Critical Introduction to the Asian | 161 |
Theresa Hak Kyung Chas | 197 |
Kimikos Hahns Interlingual Poetics | 219 |
About the Contributors | 295 |
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