![]() | Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Ethnic relations in literature; Asian Americans in literature; A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Sau-ling Cynthia Wong is Associate Professor in the Asian American Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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