Transforming Chinese American literature : a study of history, sexuality, and ethnicity

Transforming Chinese American literature a study of history, sexuality, and ethnicity

"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 Orienta...

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1. Verfasser: Chang, Joan Chiung-huei (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Lang 2000
Schriftenreihe:Modern American literature 20
Schlagworte:
American literature > Chinese American authors > Chinese Americans in literature > Chinese Americans > Intellectual life > Ethnicity in literature > Race in literature > Asiaten > Chinesen > Literatur > USA
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Zusammenfassung:"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."--BOOK JACKET
Beschreibung:In DNB, Reihe N, angekündigt u.d.T.: Mythopoetical discourse in Chinese American literature
Beschreibung:X, 202 S.
ISBN:0820440965
0-8204-4096-5