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020			_a9781350336018
040			_cFEU CAVITE LIBRARY
082			_a895 J91a 2023
100			_aJinqi Ling, _eauthor
245	1		_aAsian american literature / _cJinqi Ling.
260			_aBroadway, New York NY : _bBloomsbury Academic, _cc2023.
300			_aix, 230 pp.:
300			_c22 cm.
336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
500			_aIncludes bibliographic references and index
505			_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.
546			_ain English
650			_aLiterature _xAsian
650			_aLiterature _xAmerican
650			_aCriticism
650			_aLiterature _xHistory and criticism
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