TY - BOOK ID - 2994666 TI - Literary gestures : the aesthetics in Asian American writing AU - Davis, Rocío G. AU - Lee, Sue-Im PY - 2006 SN - 1592133657 PB - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics [American ] KW - Américains aziatiques dans la littérature KW - Asian Americans in literature KW - Aziatische Amerikanen in de literatuur KW - Esthetica [Amerikaanse ] KW - Esthétique américaine KW - 820 <73> KW - Amerikaanse literatuur KW - 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur KW - Aesthetics, American KW - American literature KW - Asian Americans KW - Asians KW - Ethnology KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - American aesthetics KW - Asian American authors&delete& KW - History and criticism KW - Intellectual life KW - Asian American authors KW - Yamanaka, Lois-Ann KW - Kingston, Maxine Hong KW - Yau, John KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Ondaatje, Michael KW - Selvadurai, Shyam KW - Lahiri, Jhumpa KW - Badami, Anita Rao KW - Ng, Fay Myenne KW - Mukherjee, Bharati KW - Hwang, David Henry KW - Houston, Velina Hasu KW - Kadohata, Cynthia KW - Yep, Laurence KW - Littérature américaine KW - Américains d'origine asiatique KW - Littérature KW - Auteurs d'origine asiatique KW - 20e siècle KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Dans la littérature KW - Esthétique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2994666 AB - Literary Gestures:The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the "ethnic" and the "aesthetic" in Asian American literary criticism, the eleven original essays in this volume provide theoretically sophisticated and formally sensitive readings of works in prose, poetry, and drama. These contributions bring discussions of genre, canonicity, narrative, and literary value to the fore to show how aesthetic and formal concerns play an important part in the production and consumption of these works. By calling for a more balanced mode of criticism, this collection invites students and scholars to reinvest in the literary, not as a negation of the sociopolitical, but as a complementary strategy in reading and understanding Asian American literature. ER -