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Double agency : acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture
- 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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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 246 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Race in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Group identity in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- Impostors and imposture in literature
- American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism
- Asian Americans > Intellectual life
- Asian Americans in literature
- Impersonation 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