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Ling, Jinqi. "The Game of Negotiation: Cultural Politics in Post-WW II Asian American Literary Discourse," American Studies Program, Washington State University, August 1992. Advisor: Alexander Hammond (9, 6)
This study argues for a process approach to analysis of the interaction between post-WW II Asian American literary discourse and mainstream culture by proposing a theoretical paradigm called “negotiation”—a model for cultural and literary bargaining strategies employed in the works of selected Asian American writers to rupture prevailing racial stereotypes, to address differences within ethnic communities, and to engage in dialogue with literary traditions, publishing industries, gender and generational conflicts, and identity politics. The main objectives of this study are to open up discussion of Asian American writers, and to identify and delineate the particular processes, as well as the multiple forms, of negotiated cultural interaction found in Asian American literary texts by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston—negotiating strategies that at once challenge the established discourse and sustain exchange with it. The analyses that comprise this study suggest that post-WW II Asian American literary discourse emerged and a distinct cultural and political voice as a result of the active bargaining carried out by individual Asian American writers. The last chapter suggests the relevance of the negotiating model to approaching issues of reception, ethnic authenticity, and writer’s responsibility in Asian American literary criticism.
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