| Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; First person narrative -- History and criticism; Point of view (Literature); Race in literature; Subjectivity in literature; Equality in literature; Lee Chang-rae. Aloft; Foster Ses; Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the author's ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective. Sohn Stephen Hong : Stephen Hong Sohn is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the co-editor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. |