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Article: Currents of study: charting the course of Asian American literary criticism.(Critical Essay)
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- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Asian American literature has now been in production for over a century, (1) and recent decades have shown an exponential increase in its publication. With this critical mass firmly in place, Asian American literary criticism continues to grow as a field. Interestingly enough, this field of inquiry, is still fairly nascent and has only recently experienced a significant increase in terms of full-length texts. Of course, the connection between Asian American literature as a cultural production and Asian American literary criticism is quite explicit and symbiotic. The work of literary critics has been crucial to the ways that Asian American literatures have been defined, ...