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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Thoma, Pamela S. "Asian American Women’s Writing: Theorizing Transnationalism," Department of English, University of Colorado, July 1996.
This work examines how several works by Asian American women postulate a new national identity that goes beyond the gendered binary oppositions which have traditionally constituted American national identity in the modern period. Placing Asian American literature within postcolonialist and feminist debates about community, I argue that Asian American women’s literature participates in theorizing postmodernity. This project analyzes “classics” in Asian American discourse, such as Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart (1946), but focuses on works that have been less well-received by critics, including Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter (1945), Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls (1987), and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Maru (1992).
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