About this title: An introduction to the literary works of Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, Filipino-Americans, and Korean-Americans, this book focuses on the self-images and social contexts of the nineteenth-century immigrants, their descendants, and the Americanized writers of today. Although the book examines the novels, autobiographies, poems, and plays themselves, the social history of Asians in American is a significant backdrop as Maxine Hong Kingston herself argues it should be.These racially distinctive Americans have confronted in their lives and writings American stereotypes of the 'Oriental,' ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: 1984-02-27
ISBN-13:9780877223528ISBN:0877223521
Description: VG-Very Good. Softcover. Retired From Library, typical library markings but no pastedowns. Otherwise, Book looks VG with no creases to cover and all pages clean. Binding is tight and square. read more
Description: Very Good. 0877223521 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please e us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Temple Univ Press, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780877223528ISBN:0877223521
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0877223521. Paperback. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: 1984-02-27
ISBN-13:9780877223528ISBN:0877223521
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: TEMPLE UNIV. PRESS, Philadelphia
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780877223528ISBN:0877223521
Description: New in New jacket. As editor Elaine Kim writes in her introduction, traditionally, one of the problems facing Asian American and other racial minority writers in America has been that many readers insist on viewing their writing as sociological or anthropological statements about the group. Lately another view just as narrow has emerged--that critical focus be concentrated on how minority writers express themselves instead of on what they say. Certainly both of these perspectives are limited ... read more
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