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Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity
Seung Ah Oh
其他書名
From Madame Butterfly to My American Wife!
出版
Lexington Books
, 2008
主題
Law / Family Law / General
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander
Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Social Science / Women's Studies
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
ISBN
0739122789
9780739122785
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=etQLAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
From the Eaton sisters' literary works at the turn of the previous century to Gish Jen's 2004 novel The Love Wife, Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity explores the ways in which the trope of American domesticity is experimented, resisted, and reinvented in Asian American women's literature. In order to contextualize Asian American women's writing within the terrain of American cultural and literary history, this book considers how the trope of domesticity is deployed in constructing Asian American women's subjectivity, especially through the tension and dynamic between Asian and white American womanhood. Seung Ah Oh focuses specifically on the female homosocial bond and the conflict surrounding the notion of Asian American domesticity, both as a gendered and a national site with the conflicting desires within and behind Asian American women's voices, endlessly shifting the notion of Asian American home and domesticity. Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity is appropriate for all students and scholars. Book jacket.