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Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
Temple University Press, 2005 Paper: 978-1-59213-365-9 | eISBN: 978-1-59213-366-6 | Cloth: 978-1-59213-364-2 Library of Congress Classification PS153.A84L58 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9895
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the "ethnic" and the "aesthetic" in Asian American literary criticism, the eleven original essays in this volume provide theoretically sophisticated and formally sensitive readings of works in prose, poetry, and drama. These contributions bring discussions of genre, canonicity, narrative, and literary value to the fore to show how aesthetic and formal concerns play an important part in the production and consumption of these works. By calling for a more balanced mode of criticism, this collection invites students and scholars to reinvest in the literary, not as a negation of the sociopolitical, but as a complementary strategy in reading and understanding Asian American literature. See other books on: Aesthetic | Asian American & Pacific Islander | Asian American authors | Asian Americans | Asian Americans in literature See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing
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Temple University Press, 2005
Paper: 978-1-59213-365-9
eISBN: 978-1-59213-366-6
Cloth: 978-1-59213-364-2
Paper: 978-1-59213-365-9
eISBN: 978-1-59213-366-6
Cloth: 978-1-59213-364-2
Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian American Writing contests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary form. Collapsing the perceived divisions between the "ethnic" and the "aesthetic" in Asian American literary criticism, the eleven original essays in this volume provide theoretically sophisticated and formally sensitive readings of works in prose, poetry, and drama. These contributions bring discussions of genre, canonicity, narrative, and literary value to the fore to show how aesthetic and formal concerns play an important part in the production and consumption of these works. By calling for a more balanced mode of criticism, this collection invites students and scholars to reinvest in the literary, not as a negation of the sociopolitical, but as a complementary strategy in reading and understanding Asian American literature.
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