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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 new horizons.Partridge builds on the concept of a "reading horizon" - a set of expectations and assumptions that a reader brings to a text - to explore the crucial interplay between reader, author, and text. Arguing that authors like Kingston, Li-Young Lee, Gish Jen, Shawn Wong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and David Wong Louie are aware of their readers' horizons and write to challenge those assumptions, Partridge demonstrates how their writings function as a potent medium of cultural transformation. With attentive readings not only of literary texts but also of book reviews and publishers' marketing materials, Partridge enables us to chart and to understand the changes in Chinese American literature and its reception in the past fifty years. In doing so, he threads a new path forward in the discussion of race and ethnicity, one that encompasses the historical valence of multiculturalism and the cross-fertilizing perspectives of postmodern hybridity theory while remaining cognizant of the persistence of racist and racialized thinking in contemporary American society. Beyond Literary Chinatown demonstrates how Chinese American literature has come to negotiate the tensions between the expression of ethnic identity and a resistance to racialization. This important contribution to the growing body of critical works on Asian American literature will be of interest to reception theorists and scholars of American ethnic studies and American literature.
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Preface ix
Acknowledgment xv
Introduction: reading horizons 3
Part I~literary chinatown and the reader's horizon~ 21
1.literary chinatown：dynamics of race and reading 23
2.what is an ethnic author? 49
Part II~exceeding the margins~75
3.the politics of ethnic authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the Banquet Table 77
4.Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and Gold 99
Part III~Change and the phenomenology of reading~115
5.changing signifiers and changing horizons:Baseball in Three Stories by David Wong Louie 117
6.Change and the playful reader: Reading Shawn Wong's American Knees 137
Part IV~reading new horizons~163
7.Beyond multicultural: cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen 165
Conclusion The Emergence of the Polycultural 191
Notes 205
Bibliography 225
index 238
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By examing several Chinese American Literary works through the lens of reception theory, the author comes with the conclusion that multiculturalism as a theoretical frame has lagged behind the development of reality. Thus, by critically borrowing from Prash 'Polyculturalism', he contends this new theoretical horizon be applied to the study of Chie
评分By examing several Chinese American Literary works through the lens of reception theory, the author comes with the conclusion that multiculturalism as a theoretical frame has lagged behind the development of reality. Thus, by critically borrowing from Prash 'Polyculturalism', he contends this new theoretical horizon be applied to the study of Chie
评分By examing several Chinese American Literary works through the lens of reception theory, the author comes with the conclusion that multiculturalism as a theoretical frame has lagged behind the development of reality. Thus, by critically borrowing from Prash 'Polyculturalism', he contends this new theoretical horizon be applied to the study of Chie
评分By examing several Chinese American Literary works through the lens of reception theory, the author comes with the conclusion that multiculturalism as a theoretical frame has lagged behind the development of reality. Thus, by critically borrowing from Prash 'Polyculturalism', he contends this new theoretical horizon be applied to the study of Chie
评分By examing several Chinese American Literary works through the lens of reception theory, the author comes with the conclusion that multiculturalism as a theoretical frame has lagged behind the development of reality. Thus, by critically borrowing from Prash 'Polyculturalism', he contends this new theoretical horizon be applied to the study of Chie
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