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Christopher Lee - The Semblance of Identity. Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature.  - 9780804778701 - V9780804778701
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The Semblance of Identity. Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature.

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Description for The Semblance of Identity. Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature. Hardback. This book examines how Asian American fiction reveals with the limitations of identity while continuing to rely on its theoretical logic as the basis of oppositional knowledge and political practices. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 456.

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 the logics of identity.

Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projects and political ... Read more

This book assembles a transnational archive of literary texts by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa, revealing the intersections of subjectivity and representation, and drawing our attention to their limits.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Asian America
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804778701
SKU
V9780804778701
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99-15

About Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for The Semblance of Identity. Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature.
"Christopher Lee's The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature stands out for its refreshing theorization of identity politics through competing Marxist paradigms of subjectivity . . . This is the grand provocation from Lee, which elicits much intellectual excitement but, more importantly, will call for response in the critical literature and most surely receive it."
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