| Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture Contributor(s): Chen, Tina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804751854 ISBN-13: 9780804751858 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2005 Annotation: " ...Chen provides an intelligent, well-organized study that will be immediately useful in the field. With this book, the field of Asian American studies comes of age." --CHOICE ., ."the sophistication with which Chen develops her critical framework and the deftness of her close readings make Double Agency an insightful and influential addition to the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies."-- Journal of Asian American Studies |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 2005000563 |
| Series: Asian America |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.08" W x 9.28" (1.21 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. |