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Drawing on a wide array of literary, historical, and theoretical sources, Rachel Lee addresses current debates on the relationship among Asian American ethnic identity, national belonging, globalization, and gender. Lee argues that scholars have traditionally placed undue emphasis on ethnic-based political commitments--whether these are construed as national or global--in their readings of Asian American texts. This has constrained the intelligibility of stories that are focused less on ethnicity than on kinship, family dynamics, eroticism, and gender roles. In response, Lee makes a case for a reconceptualized Asian American criticism that centrally features gender and sexuality. Through a critical analysis of select literary texts--novels by Carlos Bulosan, Gish Jen, Jessica Hagedorn, and Karen Yamashita--Lee probes the specific ways in which some Asian American authors have steered around ethnic themes with alternative tales circulating around gender and sexual identity. Lee makes it clear that what has been missing from current debates has been an analysis of the complex ways in which gender mediates questions of both national belonging and international migration. From anti-miscegenation legislation in the early twentieth century to poststructuralist theories of language to Third World feminist theory to critical studies of global cultural and economic flows, The Americas of Asian American Literature takes up pressing cultural and literary questions and points to a new direction in literary criticism.

Sex role in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Asian Americans --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Women and literature --- Feminism and literature --- American fiction --- American literature --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- Jen, Gish --- Bulosan, Carlos --- Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, --- Yamashita, Karen Tei, --- Political and social views. --- Jen, Bilian --- ג׳ן, גיש --- 任璧蓮 --- Bulosan, Carlos Sampayan --- Bulosan, Carlos S. --- Hagedorn, Jessica,

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"First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West. Bulosan does not spare the reader any of the horrors that accompanied the migrant's life, but his quiet, stoic voice is the most convincing witness to the terrible events he witnessed"--

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