Crossing Oceans : Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim

With the increasing globalization of culture, American literature has become a significant body of text for classrooms outside of the United States. Bringing together essays from a wide range of scholars in a number of countries, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United States, Crossing Oceans focuses on strategies for critically reading and teaching American literature, especially ethnic American literature, within the Asia Pacific region. This book will be an important tool for scholars and teachers from around the globe who desire fresh perspectives on American literature from a variety of national contexts.
The contributors use perspectives dealing with race, feminism, cultural geography, and structures of power as lenses through which to interpret texts and engage students' critical thinking. The collection is 'crossing oceans' through the transnational perspectives of the contributors who come from and/or teach at colleges and universities in both Asia and the United States. Many of the essays reveal how narratives of and about ethnic Americans can be used to redefine and reconfigure not only American literary studies, but also constructions of Asian and American identities.

作者簡介：

Noelle Brada-Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University.

Karen H. Chow is presently a full-time English faculty member at De Anza College in Cupertino, California.

• 作者： Noelle Brada-Williams、Karen Chow
• 出版社： 香港大學出版社 出版日期：2004-01-01 ISBN/ISSN：9622096913
• 語言：英文 裝訂方式：平裝
• 類別： 中文書> 哲學宗教