TY  - GEN
T1  - The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives
A1  - Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto, Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn244768460
AB  - Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks, ' their shared physical features marking them legally, socially, and culturally as visible outsiders, and paradoxically, as invisible to mainstream history and culture. Ty argues that writers such as Denise Chong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Wayson Choy recast the marks of their bodies and challenge common perceptions of difference based on the sights, smells, dress, and other characteristics of their hyphenated lives. Others, like filmmaker Mina Shum and writers Bienvenido Santos and Hiromi Goto, challenge the means by which Asian North American subjects are represented and constructed in the media and in everyday language. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.
OP  - 227
CN  - PR9188.2.A74 T9 2004eb
SN  - 9781442682122
SN  - 1442682124
SN  - 128199474X
SN  - 9781281994745
SN  - 9780802086044
SN  - 0802086047
SN  - 0802088317
SN  - 9780802088314
KW  - Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua : Buenos Aires
KW  - Canadian prose literature : Asian authors : History and criticism.
KW  - American prose literature : Asian American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Asians : Canada : Intellectual life.
KW  - Asian Americans : Intellectual life.
KW  - Asian Americans in literature.
KW  - Asians in motion pictures.
KW  - Ethnicity in literature.
KW  - Narration (Rhetoric)
KW  - Prose canadienne-anglaise : Auteurs canadiens d'origine asiatique : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Prose américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Canadiens d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
KW  - Canadiens d'origine chinoise au cinéma.
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - Asiatiques au cinéma.
KW  - Ethnicité dans la littérature.
KW  - Narration.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : Asian American.
KW  - Asian Americans in literature
KW  - Asian Americans : Intellectual life
KW  - Asians in motion pictures
KW  - Asians : Intellectual life
KW  - Ethnicity in literature
KW  - Canada
KW  - Randgruppe : Motiv
KW  - Kanada
KW  - Prosa
KW  - USA
KW  - Asiaten.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -