Asian American war stories : trauma and healing in contemporary Asian American literature /: trauma and healing in contemporary Asian American literature. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeffrey Tyler Gibbons.
• Authors: Gibbons, Jeffrey Tyler
• Contents: Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: Trauma and Healing in Contemporary Asian American Literature ………1 CHAPTER 1: Discovering Beauty through Illness and Failure in Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered …………………………………………………………………………...23 CHAPTER 2: Open Wounds and Half Lives: Post-traumatic Illness and the Struggle to Heal in Lan Cao’s The Lotus and the Storm ………………………………………...66 CHAPTER 3: Testimony in Asian American Literature………………………………………116 CHAPTER 4: Intergenerational Trauma in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous ………………………………………………………………………………………..159 CHAPTER 5: The Trauma of Citizenship: Collective Healing in Lawson Inada’s Internment Poetry……………………………………………………………………………….188 Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9895073; American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; War in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000777093; 9781000777086; 9781032130347
• Related ISBNs: 9781032130330
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