Recontextualizing Asian American domesticity : from Madame Butterfly to My American wife! / Seung Ah Oh.
- Author
- Oh, Seung Ah, 1971-
- Published
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008]
- Copyright Date
- ©2008
- Physical Description
- xv, 184 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Beyond the trope of Madame Butterfly: John Luther Long and the Eaton Sisters -- Brought to you by war: Tea, Comfort Woman, and Monkey Bridge -- Domestic/immigrant family romance: Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jasmine, and The Love Wife -- Homequest: My Year of Meats and Blu's Hanging.
- Summary
- "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." --Book Jacket.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780739122785 (hc : alk. paper)
0739122789 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.
- Source of Acquisition
- UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Quinn-Anderson Libraries Collections Endowment; 2009.
- Endowment Note
- Quinn-Anderson Libraries Collections Endowment
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