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Article: Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures.(Review) (book review)
- Article from:
- American Studies International
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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Sheng-mei Ma. Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998), 188 pp., $19.95 (paper).
Sheng-mei Ma's book addresses gaps in Asian American, postcolonial, and modern Chinese studies, and contributes to an emerging dialogue among these three fields, by comparing representations of immigrant subjectivities in literary texts by Asian Americans, and literary and cinematic texts by Taiwanese authors. Although the text is nominally divided into three parts, Parts One and Two are closely linked by their focus on Asian American literary texts, while Part Three stakes a claim for the urgency and ...