Tricksters and cosmopolitans : cross-cultural collaborations in Asian American literary production /
"Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non-Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the cosmopolitan subject, featuring the writers...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Century:
- Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, and Allies in the East
- Coast Publishing Industry
- (1) Locating Trickster Poetics
- Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Walter Hines
- Page
- (2) Silence as Signifying
- Sui Sin Far's Short Stories, The Independent, and William
- Hayes Ward
- Chapter 2 The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject: Jessica
- Hagedorn, San Francisco, and Multiculturalism in the Age
- of Globalization
- (1) San Francisco's Avant-Garde Literary Scene
- Yardbird Publishing, Shameless Hussey Press, and Third World
- Communications
- (2) A Star is Born
- Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica
- Hagedorn's "Pet Food"
- (3) The Death of the Artist
- Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica
- Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B
- (4) Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food"
- Chapter 3 L.A.-Paris-N.Y: Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong,
- Min Jin Lee, and the Changing Parameters of Literary
- Production at the New Turn of the Century
- (1) L.A. Vie En Orange
- Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic
- of Orange (1998)
- (2) The Impossible Book
- Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's
- The Book of Salt (2004)
- (3) Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street
- Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2006)
- Acknowledgements.