Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance

by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong

Book Overview

A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015414
• ISBN13: 9780691015415
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Written with care, concern, wit, and respect for texts.

Everything Sauling Wong writes she writes with care, concern, wit, tact, and an immense respect for literary texts. This study is a classic by now, and the more "transnational" work beyond it can only renew its relevance and care. No diasporic opportunism would find a home here in such close and caring readings of the US Asia/Pacific texts of worldliness and quest.