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 | | Transforming Chinese American Literature: A Study of History, Sexuality, and Ethnicity by Joan Chiung-Heui Chang ISBN-10: 9780820440965 ISBN-10: 0-8204-4096-5 ISBN-13: 9780820440965 ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-4096-5 Hardcover 2000-08-01 Peter Lang Pub Inc Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description What is a Chinese American? A Chinese? An American? Or both? Or neither? These seemingly easy questions are hard to answer in terms of history, culture, ethnicity, and literature. In order to provide an answer to these questions, Chinese American writers transform a historical discourse into a historicist one to review history, an intrapersonal discourse into an interpersonal one to redefine autobiography, and a mythological discourse into a mythopoetical one to rewrite mythology, so as to transform an American Orientalist discourse into a Chinese American one for the reading and writing of Chinese American literature. As a consequence, the question "What is a Chinese American?" is transformed into an affirmation of what a Chinese American is. | ||