The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time: 4 (Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Wang, Mai

 
9781399529211: The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time: 4 (Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1399529218 ISBN 13: 9781399529211
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Mai Wang is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her critical and creative work has been published in Amerasia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Hyphen Magazine and other venues. She holds a PhD in English from Stanford University. She is currently working on her second book, a critical biography of the Chinese diasporic writer Eileen Chang.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1399529218
ISBN 13 
9781399529211
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256