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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magosaki, Rei (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.