Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture

by Tina Chen

Book Overview

In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.

By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751862
• ISBN13: 9780804751865
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"