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Assimilating Asians
Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
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2000
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This work combines social theory with literary analysis to look at how Asian American writers use literature to participate in the critique and analysis of their position in US culture.
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Patricia P. Chu is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.
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“Bringing fresh perspectives to much-discussed work, Assimilating Asians is a fine book.”—Elaine Kim, University of California, Berkeley
“Chu brings social theory and literary analysis together with smart and elegant readings. Hers is one of the first works of Asian American literary criticism to foreground the gendered aspects of narratives of assimilation.”—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: ‘‘A City of Words’’
1 - ONE. Myths of Americanization
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1 America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada
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2 Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura
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3 Womens’ Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee
90 - TWO. Constructing Chinese American Ethnicity
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4 ‘‘That Was China, That Was Their Fate’’: Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy Luck Club
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5 Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition
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Coda: ‘‘What We Should Become, What We Were’’
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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