Semblance of Identity

Name: Semblance of Identity
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804778701
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Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature

Autor: Christopher Lee

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught rel...

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Autor

Christopher Lee

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

208

EAN

9780804778701

ISBN

0804778701

Enbook ID

04719203

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

440

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 23

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The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. "The Semblance of Identity"argues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity. Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projects and political practices. He reframes identity as an aesthetic figure that tries to articulate the subjective conditions for knowledge. Harnessing Theodor Adorno's notion of aesthetic semblance, Lee offers an alternative account of identity as a figure akin to modern artwork. Like art, Lee argues, identity provides access to imagined worlds that in turn wage a critique of ongoing histories and realities of racialization. This book assembles a transnational archive of literary texts by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa, revealing the intersections of subjectivity and representation, and drawing our attention to their limits.

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