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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Asian American literature"”.
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Christianity in contemporary Asian American literature : (mis)-translations of the word.
… "subverted" or "ironized" by contemporary Asian American writers. From the perspectives of Christian literary and cultural theories, however, this dissertation argues that such a power-oriented interpretation is oversimplifying. Instead, we should acknowledge the spiritual dimension many of …
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Asian-American Literature and the Family Saga: Cyclical Histories of Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation
… Craig and argues how the family saga within Asian American literature draws out elements of the diaspora to best share histories across different ethnic and racial groups. There is a brief overview of the development of Asian-American literature and an explanation of how hyphenated identity …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… of Racism’: Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial melancholia and ultimately arguing …
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Raping the raced body: Trauma in Asian North American women's literature
… sexual traumas in short fiction and novels by Asian American women writing post-WWII to the present. The central focus of this project is on Asian American literary representations of the lingering effects of physical, racial, and sexual traumas to Asian American women, specifically the nuances …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
This dissertation turns to contemporary Asian American literature to examine how the aftereffects of U.S. Cold War violence and trauma manifest themselves in minor subjectivities. In the texts I explore, peripheral subjects, whose physical and psychic dislocations stem from Cold War dynamics …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
<p>Twentieth-century American military campaigns in Asia transformed the landscape of Indigenous and Asian American writing. Their often-overlooked literature on war illuminates the unexpected social and political alliances between these communities as well as the various ways that military service …
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Interior Chinatown: Chinatown as a Performative Space
<p>This thesis focuses on Charles Yu’s <em>Interior Chinatown: A Novel</em> (2020), exploring the function of Chinatown in Los Angeles within the novel as a space of creation, that of “Asia” for Hollywood and home for Taiwanese immigrants. I argue that <em>Interior Chinatown</em> offers a unique …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… for the readers, suggesting in the power of literature and reading responsibly to humanize characters counter to their own consent to the uncritical logic and acceptance of late capitalism that shapes their reality. Literature then becomes a way to imagine and “speculate” alternatively on …
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Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
… charts the emergence of a postrace aesthetic in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric portray a nation moving toward racial equality while our statistics actually reveal the …