By King-Kok Cheung
This ebook bridges comparative literature and American reviews by utilizing an intercultural and bilingual method of chinese language American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a brand new transnational alternate through analyzing either chinese language and chinese language American writers. half 1 offers replacement different types of masculinity that go beyond traditional institutions of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in gentle of the chinese language dyadic perfect of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), whereas redefining either within the method. half 2 highlights the writers’ formal concepts by means of featuring substitute autobiography, conception, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung places in reduction the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical opinions. The writers tested supply a reflexive lens by which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” state and to appear homeward with out blinders.
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Chinese American Literature without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form by King-Kok Cheung
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