Writers Under The Microscope: SCHOLARSHIP AND ASIAN AMERICAN

From: International Examiner | Date: May 18, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Greg Choy
International Examiner
05-18-1994
Writers Under The Microscope: Scholarship and Asian American. Literature: Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance

Sau-ling Cynthia Wong

Princeton University Press, 1993

Reviewed by Greg Choy

"It is the kind of semiotic status of the term Asian American that shapes our understanding of what kind of discourse Asian American literature is, and in turn, what kind of practice Asian American criticism is," writes Sau-ling Cynthia Wong in her introduction to what will likely become a seminal work of criticism in the blossoming field ...

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