Research Catalog

Title

Double agency : acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture / Tina Chen.

Author

Chen, Tina (Tina Yih-Ting), 1970-

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

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Description

xxvi, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism
• Impostors and imposture in literature
• Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
• Asian Americans > Intellectual life
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Asian Americans in literature
• Group identity in literature
• Impersonation in literature
• Race in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index.

Contents

Impersonation and double agency : theorizing the practice, practicing the theory -- Dissecting the "Devil Doctor" : stereotype and sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu -- De/posing stereotype on the Asian American stage -- Bodily negotiations : the politics of performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach -- Shamanism and the subject(s) of history in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Impersonation and other disappearing acts : the double(d) agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker.

Call Number

*OAT 05-8315

ISBN

• 0804751854 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0804751862 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005000563

OCLC

57506738

Author

Chen, Tina (Tina Yih-Ting), 1970-

Title

Double agency : acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture / Tina Chen.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index.

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Research Call Number

*OAT 05-8315