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"item_title" : "The Asian American Renaissance",
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Overview
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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