The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America by Odabas, Janna

The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837644494)

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The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America by Odabas, Janna

The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America

$45.00
The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America by Odabas, Janna

The Ghosts Within: Literary Imaginations of Asian America

$45.00
Format: Paperback
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The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted in a variety of ways: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of Asian America as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.

Author: Janna Odabas
ISBN-10: 3837644499
ISBN-13: 9783837644494
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Janna Odabas
By Janna Odabas
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Janna Odabas completed the program of the Graduate School of North American Studies at the Free University in Berlin. In 2014, she received the Young Scholar Excellence Award of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA). Her work focuses on questions of identity and migration.

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