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008			140630s2014 wau ob s001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aPS153 _b.C585 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aZhou, Xiaojing, _d1952- _e1
245	1	0	_aCities of Others : _breimagining urban spaces in Asian American literature / _cXiaojing Zhou.
260			_aSeattle : _bUniversity of Washington Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 334 pages).
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aThe Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Contested urban space -- _t"The woman about town": Transgressing raced and gendered boundaries in Sui Sin Far's writings -- _tClaiming right to the city: Lin Yutang's "Chinatown Family" -- _t"Our inside story" of Chinatown: Fae Myenne Ng's "Bone" -- _tChinatown as an embattled pedagogical space: Frank Chin's short story cycle and "Donald Duk" -- _tInhabititing the city as exiles: Bienvenido N. Santos's "What the Hell for you left your heart in San Francisco" -- _tThe city as a "Contact Zone": / _rMeena Alexander's "Manhattan Music" -- _t"The living voice of the city": Change-rae Lee's "Native Speaker" -- _tMapping the global city and "the Other Scene" of globalization: Karen Tei Yamashita's "Tropic of Orange" -- _tConclusion: the I-Hotel and other places.
520	0		_aAsian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers --both celebrated and overlooked-- depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal attention to life in other parts of the city. Her innovative and wide-ranging approach sheds new light on the works of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American writers who bear witness to a variety of urban experiences and reimagine the American city as other than a segregated nation-space. Drawing on critical theories on space from urban geography, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies, Zhou shows how spatial organization shapes identity in the works of Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Meena Alexander, Frank Chin, Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others. She also shows how the everyday practices of Asian American communities challenge racial segregation, reshape urban spaces, and redefine the identity of the American city. From a reimagining of the nineteenth-century flaneur figure in an Asian American context to providing a framework that allows readers to see ethnic enclaves and American cities as mutually constitutive and transformative, Zhou gives us a provocative new way to understand some of the most important works of Asian American literature. --
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _xAsian American authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPublic spaces in literature.
650		0	_aCities and towns in literature.
650		0	_aAsian Americans in literature.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell