The politics of the visible in Asian North American narratives /

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 var...

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Үндсэн зохиолч: Ty, Eleanor Rose, 1958-
Формат: Licensed eBooks
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Хэвлэсэн: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2004.
Онлайн хандалт:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=468619
Агуулга:
  • Visuality, Representation, and the Gaze
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  • A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor
  • Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness
  • Transformations Through the Sensual
  • To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces
  • 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
  • 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
  • Invisible Minorities in Asian America
  • 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
  • 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms
  • 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country.