Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

• Author(s): B. Huang,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 184
• ISBN_10: 0230117325
  ISBN_13: 9780230117327
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics.