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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Immigration, Migration, and Movement
- Part II Politics, Art, and Activism
- Part III Institutionalization and Canon Formation
- Part IV Diaspora and the Transnational Turn
- Chapter 15 Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return
- Chapter 16 Diasporic Longings
- Chapter 17 Transnational Sexualities
- Chapter 18 Intimacy, Imperialism, and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing
- Chapter 19 Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas
- References
- Index
Chapter 15 - Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return
from Part IV - Diaspora and the Transnational Turn
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2021
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Asian American Literature In Transition
- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Immigration, Migration, and Movement
- Part II Politics, Art, and Activism
- Part III Institutionalization and Canon Formation
- Part IV Diaspora and the Transnational Turn
- Chapter 15 Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return
- Chapter 16 Diasporic Longings
- Chapter 17 Transnational Sexualities
- Chapter 18 Intimacy, Imperialism, and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing
- Chapter 19 Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas
- References
- Index
Summary
Asian American literature has always focused not only on arrival, immigration, and assimilation, but also on return, transpacific crossings, and transnational connections. Asian American return narratives have described America (Fukuzawa); promoted intercultural understanding (Yung); critiqued repatriate return and rescue (Rizal, Bulosan); revisited the wartime and Cold War conduct of authors' ancestral countries; and addressed the wounds of historical erasure. Japanese American return narratives include immigrant returns (Sugimoto, Reischauer), nisei narratives in which returning to Japan complements accounts of Japanese North American internment or forced removal (Kogawa), wartime returns (Yoshida, Tomita), and sansei scholars' sojourns (Kondo, Minatoya, Mura). Chinese diasporic return narratives describe the PRC when it first reopened to Americans (1971) (Wong, Chiang); a repatriate's persecution (Wu); US sojourns, transpacific family connections, and separation (Kingston, See, Chong). By mythologizing return as a means for second-generation self-discovery and resolution of immigrant loss and mourning (racial melancholia), Amy Tan made Chinese wartime suffering memorable.
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- Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996 , pp. 279 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021