Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature: Re-membering the Body (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781433102684)

Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such processes to the global dynamics of empire building and a suppressed history of American imperialism. Through a comparative analysis of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this study considers the ways in which bodies challenge the categories asserted in nation-building. The book proposes that underwritten by the vast histories of American imperial migrations, there are texts and bodies which challenge and reconstitute the ever-vexed definition of American. In re-membering such bodies, Maria C. Zamora proclaims our bodies as actual living texts, texts that are constantly bearing, contesting, and transforming meaning. Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature will engage scholars interested in cultural and critical theory, citizenship and national identity, race and ethnicity, the body, gender studies, and transnational literature.

Author: Yoshinobu Hakutani,Maria C. Zamora
ISBN-10: 1433102684
ISBN-13: 9781433102684
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2008
Pages: 130
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/12/2008 pg. 20
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 271