Beyond Literary Chinatown 9780295987064
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Table of contents :
Cover Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION: Reading Horizons
PART I: Literary Chinatown and the Reader’s Horizon
1. Literary Chinatown: Dynamics of Race and Reading
2. What Is an Ethnic Author?
PART II: Exceeding the Margins
3. The Politics of Ethnic Authorship
4. Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s Joss and Gold
PART III: Change and the Phenomenology of Reading
5. Changing Signifiers and Changing Horizons
6. Change and the Playful Reader: Reading Shawn Wong’s American Knees
7. Beyond Multicultural: Cultural Hybridity in the Novels of Gish Jen
Conclusion: The Emergence of the Polycultural
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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AMERICAN ETHNIC AND CULTURAL STUDIES
John C. Walter and Johnnella E. Butler, Series Editors
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