Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry and PerformanceIn their different and yet complementary perspectives, all of the essays in this collection reiterate the universal lesson of pluralism. They are divided into sections that deal with biraciality and biculturality, interethnic negotiations, poetic creations, narrative experiments, and (re)constructing self. The wide variety of approaches reflects the contributors' training in different cultures and across cultures. The book showcases refreshing new perspectives in reading that combine the views of literary scholars from three different continents. This collection creates a space for discussion and commentary, of heightened appreciation and increased creativity, a forum that turns the discipline of Asian American Studies into a truly intercultural debate. |
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Page 92
She tells us at one point : “ I cannot tell about this time ( . . . ) . ... whereby her
inability to “ re - memory " her past , and to tell that story , due to familial and
cultural prohibitions not to tell , defers the catharsis that accompanies that telling (
143 ) .
She tells us at one point : “ I cannot tell about this time ( . . . ) . ... whereby her
inability to “ re - memory " her past , and to tell that story , due to familial and
cultural prohibitions not to tell , defers the catharsis that accompanies that telling (
143 ) .
Page 93
When she remembers the incident , it is interlinked with this loss : “ Don ' t tell
your mother , " he whispers into my ear . This is what he always says . Where in
the darkness has my mother gone ? I am clinging to my mother ' s leg , a flesh
shaft ...
When she remembers the incident , it is interlinked with this loss : “ Don ' t tell
your mother , " he whispers into my ear . This is what he always says . Where in
the darkness has my mother gone ? I am clinging to my mother ' s leg , a flesh
shaft ...
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first half as telling fairy tales about her past in China and in the second , symbolic
narratives of change about her life in America : Her childhood was composed of
fairy tales . The places she described existed in a world accessible only to the ...
first half as telling fairy tales about her past in China and in the second , symbolic
narratives of change about her life in America : Her childhood was composed of
fairy tales . The places she described existed in a world accessible only to the ...
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Contents
Asian American Literature in the International Context | 9 |
Race as Process in the Work | 21 |
Celebrating Ourselves in the Other | 37 |
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| Title | Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry and Performance Volume 1 of Caals Series Contributions to Asian American literary studies |
| Authors | Alicia Otano, Rocío G. Davis, Sämi Ludwig |
| Editors | Rocío G. Davis, Samuel Mattias Ludwig, Sämi Ludwig |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Lit, 2002 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 3825857107, 9783825857103 |
| Length | 265 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Asia / General Literary Criticism / Asian / General |
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