By King-Kok Cheung
This ebook bridges comparative literature and American reports through the use of an intercultural and bilingual method of chinese language American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a brand new transnational trade through studying either chinese language and chinese language American writers. half 1 offers replacement kinds of masculinity that go beyond traditional institutions of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in gentle of the chinese language dyadic perfect of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), whereas redefining either within the strategy. half 2 highlights the writers’ formal strategies by way of proposing replacement autobiography, conception, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung places in reduction the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical reviews. The writers tested offer a reflexive lens during which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” nation and to seem homeward with no blinders.
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