Beyond Literary Chinatown
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
American Book Award Winner (Before Columbus Foundation)
The phenomenon of “literary Chinatown”--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. In a 1982 response to reviews of Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston pinpointed the crux of the matter: “How dare they make their ignorance our inscrutability!”
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge examines the dynamic relationship between reader expectations of Chinese American literature and the challenges to these expectations posed by recent Chinese American texts, challenges that push our understanding of a multicultural society to ... Read more
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