02202nam a2200325Ia 4500 OSt 20260803094247.0 251212s2023 xx 000 0 und d 9781350336018 FEU CAVITE LIBRARY 895 J91a 2023 Jinqi Ling, author Asian american literature / Jinqi Ling. Broadway, New York NY : Bloomsbury Academic, c2023. ix, 230 pp.: 22 cm. text unmediated volume Includes bibliographic references and index This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling`s presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its practices - including polemics, controversies, and ideological ruptures - as an ongoing negotiation undertaken by Asian American critics for a more self-conscious and more adequate representation of the field`s interests. These rationales are fully contextualized in the book`s Introduction and Conclusion. The main body of this study is organized non-chronologically into 8 chapters, with each designed to reflect how the field has been energized by its demographic transformation, its growing intellectual heterogeneity, its defining moments, and its cross-cutting relationship with the trends in other disciplines. What has emerged and been given prominence to in the surveys and discussions of this book then constitute the essential criticism of Asian American literary studies, a discourse almost 5 decades in the making when examined retrospectively. in English Literature Asian Literature American Criticism Literature History and criticism lcc BK fjjumarang 2024-06-20 14:57:55 0 1 1 0 12899 12785 12785 0 0 ddc 0 0 BED BED BED 2025-12-21 FIL 306 B52u 2016 SH0630 2026-06-18 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK