Modern Minority
Asian American Literature and Everyday Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199915835
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 155x236x20 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with everyday life.
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Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with the everyday. Lee argues that it is through the elements of the everyday, which she defines as the 'quantifiable' attention to familiar objects and 'quasi-statistical' repetitions of ordinary acts, that Asian American writers negotiate their vexed relationship to modernity. Lee draws on Lukacs, Jameson, de Certeau, and other cultural critics to show how portraits of the everyday articulate Asian American writers' participation in the project of literary realism. The study participates in a new trend in Asian American criticism that sees form as crucial to the construction of minorness. The book covers most of the 20th century and spans a range of Asian ethnic groups and literary styles. Authors examined include Carlos Bulosan, Lan Samantha Chang, Frank Chin, Ha Jin, Younghill Kang, Nora Okja Keller, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, Chang-rae Lee, Mine Okubo, Monica Sone, Jade Snow Wong, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thi Diem Thúy Lê, and Toshio Mori. The manuscript contributes a new direction in a field in which the criticism has been preoccupied with the politics of recognition and identity; it will interest scholars in Asian American, ethnic American, and American literary and cultural criticism.
Yoon Lee has produced an ambitious and brilliant conceptualization of Asian American literature. This book models a breakthrough, expansive set of arguments for what ethnic literature can do, what it sees, and what it secretly longs for. Modern Minority is the work of Asian American literary criticism and theory we have been waiting for.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Introduction
Asian American Realism and the Forms of Everyday Minorness
Part I: Discovering the Modern Everyday
Chapter One
The Outward Spiral: Kang and Bulosan Ignore the Everyday
Chapter Two
Little Things: The Uncanny Everyday of Internment Literature
Part II: The Problem of Identity
Chapter Three
Unlikely Daughters, Exemplary Mothers, and Disembedded Chinamen: Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston
Chapter Four
The Changing Story of Thingness: From Kogawa and Keller to Ha Jin and Lan Samantha Chang
Part III: Everyday Immanence
Chapter Five
Lists, Native Speaker, and the Politics of Emergence
Chapter Six
Extensive Time and Crumpled Surfaces: Projects of Identity
in Frank Chin and Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Conclusion
Encountering Modernity Every Day
