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The Asian American Renaissance : Literary Encounters Across Time

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How do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature? The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time is the first scholarly investigation into the formal and archival links between canonical authors such as Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and their twentieth-century Asian American counterparts. It investigates how a transnational group of authors--Carlos Bulosan, Younghill Kang, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eileen Chang--inherit the American Renaissance as both a racial allegory and a supplier of literary forms such as the romance and the jeremiad.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781399529228
  • ISBN-10: 1399529226
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publish Date: April 2027
  • Page Count: 224

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