02322nam a2200337Ia 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040002300080082001800103100002500121245004500146260005800191300001700249300001100266336000900277337001500286338001100301500004800312505131200360546001501672650002201687650002501709650001401734650003801748942004501786943001501831998001001846999001701856952011101873OSt20260803094247.0251212s2023    xx            000 0 und d  a9781350336018  cFEU CAVITE LIBRARY  a895 J91a 2023  aJinqi Ling, eauthor1 aAsian american literature /cJinqi Ling.  aBroadway, New York NY :bBloomsbury Academic,cc2023.  aix, 230 pp.:  c22 cm.  atext  aunmediated  avolume  aIncludes bibliographic references and index  aThis 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.  ain English  aLiteraturexAsian  aLiteraturexAmerican  aCriticism  aLiteraturexHistory and criticism  2lcccBKafjjumarange2024-06-20 14:57:55  d0f1g1h0  a12899  c12785d12785  00102ddc4070aBEDbBEDcBEDd2025-12-21oFIL 306 B52u 2016pSH0630r2026-06-18 00:00:00w2025-12-21yBK