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Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon

Editat de Tanfer Emin Tunc, Elisabetta Marino
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2010
Includes chapters which explore the past, present and future position of Chinese American authors within the framework of what Bloom identifies as the 'Western literary canon.' This book represents the 'transnational turn' in American literary studies, and examines whether or not Chinese American literature is inside or outside the canon.
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ISBN-13: 9781443824859
ISBN-10: 1443824852
Pagini: 241
Dimensiuni: 155 x 211 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Notă biografică

Tanfer Emin Tunc is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BA, MA and PhD in American History, and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and specializes in women's history/literature; gender, sexuality, and reproduction; feminist/cultural theory; and American ethnic history/literature. In addition to numerous book chapters, book reviews, and reference book entries, she has published over twenty full-length articles on topics as diverse as reproductive health, women's history, consumer culture, and American literature. Her other books include Technologies of Choice: A History of Abortion Techniques in the United States, 1850-1980 (VDM, 2008), The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), and The Theme of Cultural Adaptation in American History, Literature, and Film: Cases When the Discourse Changed (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). Elisabetta Marino is Assistant Professor of English literature at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. She has published a book on the figure of Tamerlane in English and American literature (Tamerlano, Rome, Sun Moon Lake, 2000), and edited the proceedings volume of the 2001 "Asia and the West Conference," a conference organized by Professor Lina Unali and held at Tor Vergata (Rome, Sun Moon Lake, 2002). Together with Dr. Simal Gonzalez, she edited a collection of essays entitled Transnational, National, and Personal Voices, New Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Diasporic Women Writers (Munster, LitVerlag, 2004). In 2005, Dr. Marino published Introduzione alla letteratura bangladese Britannica - Introduction to British Bangladeshi Literature - (Rome, Sun Moon Lake, 2005) and in 2006, translated poems by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, which were collected in the volume Talismans/Talismani (Ibiskos, Empoli, 2006). In 2007, she edited the second volume of the e-book New Asian American Writers and News from UK, Italy and Asia: Literature and the Visual Arts.