Narrating Nationalisms / SIGNED / Jinqi Ling and 44 similar items

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED! Inscribed, personalized (See Photos)! BOX packed with padding. (See Photos!) First Edition, 1998, with full number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, fine edges. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, bumping to top edge of front inner flap, otherwise, near fine edges. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature 1st Edition by Jinqi Ling (Author). This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of post-WWII Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies, postmodern and poststructuralist theory, social history, and neo-pragmatism, Ling offers fresh perspectives on the cultural politics and formal strategies of texts too often seen in recent criticism as devoid of complexities and fraught with totalizing implications. In challenging uncritical adoption of posthumanist views of history, agency, and identity in Asian American cultural criticism, this pioneering book opens an approach to Asian American literary texts that simultaneously registers their rich specificity and relatedness to works before and after.