The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

by Christopher Lee

The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804778701
• ISBN13: 9780804778701
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"