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The Asian American avant-garde: Universalist aspirations in early Asian American literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Asian American avant-garde: Universalist aspirations in early Asian American literature./
Author:	Clark, Audrey Wu.
Description:	170 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3271.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-09A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3413339
ISBN:	9781124140346

The Asian American avant-garde: Universalist aspirations in early Asian American literature.
Clark, Audrey Wu.

The Asian American avant-garde: Universalist aspirations in early Asian American literature. - 170 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-09, Section: A, page: 3271.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2010.

My project traces a genealogy of universalism in early Asian American literature that led to the panethnic formation of the Asian American literary canon in the 1960s and 1970s. I contribute to the recent criticisms of panethnicity as the organizing principle of the field by arguing that the panethnic paradigm, based solely on the anachronistically imposed alliance of excluded diverse Asian ethnic groups, did not structure early Asian American literature. Instead, I argue that the authors of these early texts represented the racial particularity of their "Asian American" protagonists as universal. The protagonists' performances of universalism exposed the doubleness of American universalism---that is, the failed universalism that excluded racial minorities and the promised inclusive universalism that is yet to come. My conceptualization of Asian American universalism fortifies the theoretical aspect of the sociological paradigm of panethnicity by offering a different and more historically specific approach than the deconstructive readings of political resistance and melancholic abjection that have very recently theorized panethnicity. Since Americanism was conceived through liberal universalism during the period of Asian exclusion (1882-1943), becoming "Asian American" for these authors and their protagonists impossibly and yet productively universalized their racial particularity to their predominantly white audiences.

ISBN: 9781124140346Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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