Overview
- Examines literature dealing with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities
- Considers war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects in minority trauma writings
- Offers a broad international perspective on migration and minority issues
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About this book
Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war trauma memories in Asian-American communities. Seeing war experiences and their associative diasporas and affects as the core and axis, it considers the multifarious poetics and politics of minority trauma writings, and posits a possible interpretive framework for contemporary Asian-American writings, including those written by Julie Otsuka, Joseph Craig Danner, Monique Truong, Nguyen Viet Thanh, Janice Lowe Shinebourne, and Andre Lamontagne. As these writings contain works regarding Japanese-American, Indo-Chinese Guyanese, Chinese Quebeçois, Vietnamese exiles/refugees, and Vietnam-American experiences, this book presents a broad cross-cultural view on migration and minority issues triggered by wars and precarious conditions, as the diversified experiences examined here epitomize an intricate historical intimacy across four continents: Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jade Tsui-yu Lee, a Fulbright alumnus, is a Professor in English Department at National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU), Taiwan. She obtained her doctoral degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University (NTU) with a dissertation titled “Revisionary Aesthetics/Politics: The Creole Fiction of Jean Rhys and Michelle Cliff.” The courses she regularly offers include Survey of American Literature, Literary Criticism, Contemporary English Fiction, and Asian American Literature. Her research interests include the studies of Asian American literature, contemporary British fiction, Caribbean studies, and Sino-Caribbean Diaspora.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings
Authors: Jade Tsui-yu Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6363-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6362-1Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6363-8Published: 01 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 141
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Literature, Memory Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature