Asian American Literature Jinqi Ling by Jinqi Ling 9781350336025, 9781350336018, 9781350336056, 1350336025, 1350336017, 135033605X instant download after payment.

An introduction to Asian American literary studies, this book simultaneously engages the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. In doing so, it addresses two needs: first, to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic-specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second, 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.
The book’s introduction and conclusion contextualize the books aims and rationale, while the following eight chapters – organized non-chronologically – are 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.