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Divided into two parts - the first a combination of historical introduction and theoretical analysis, the second consisting of comprehensive, in-depth, detailed close readings of representative literary works - this book is a unique bridge connecting the fields of Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, and Asian Studies. Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to the transformations of Chinese identity in modern times, it reads Asian American literature and Asian American literary studies in the context of the historical events and geopolitical ch

American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Chinese American authors --- History and criticism. --- Chinese influences. --- United States --- Relations

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The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the huge body of fiction which has addressed itself to that plurality of lives and geographies and which has come to be known as “After China”? This collection of essays offers bearings on those written in English, and in which both memory and story are central, spanning the USA to Australia, Canada to the UK, Hong Kong to Singapore, with yet others of more transnational nature. This collection opens with a reprise of woman-authored Chinese American fiction using Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan as departure points. In turn follow readings of the oeuvres of Tan and Frank Chin. A comparative essay takes up novels by Canadian, American and Australian authors from the perspective of migrancy as fracture. Chinese Canada comes into view in accounts of SKY Lee, Wayson Choy, Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai. Australia under Chinese literary auspices is given a comparative mapping through the fiction of Brian Castro and Ouyang Yu. The English language “China fiction” of Singapore and Hong Kong is located in essays centred, respectively, on Martin Booth and Po Wah Lam, and Hwee Hwee Tan and Colin Cheong. The collection rounds out with portraits of Timothy Mo as British transnational author, a selection of contextual Chinese British stories and art, and the phenomenon of “Chinese Chick Lit” novels. China Fictions/English Language will be of interest to readers drawn both to “After China” as diasporic literary heritage and comparative literature in general.

Chinese fiction --- Chinese fiction. --- Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- 1900-1999 --- American literature --- English literature --- Chinese American authors --- Christian authors --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers)

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American literature --- Chinese Americans in literature. --- Chinese Americans --- Culture in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Chinese American authors --- History and criticism. --- Jewish authors --- Intellectual life. --- Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951. The Rise of David Levinsky --- Chinese Americans in literature --- Chinese Amerikanen in literatuur --- Culture dans la littérature --- Culture in literature --- Cultuur in de literatuur --- Identiteit (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Identiteit in de literatuur --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Identity in literature --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Identité dans la littérature --- Jews in literature --- Joden in de literatuur --- Juifs dans la littérature --- Sino-Américains dans la littérature --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Chinese American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Jewish authors&delete& --- Intellectual life --- United States --- Love in literature --- Roth, Henry --- Roth, Philip --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chin, Frank Chew --- Gold, Herbert --- Hoffman, Eva --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Tan, Amy

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This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders. .

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