Double agency:acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture
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Stanford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Stanford, Calif. |
Publication Dates: | 2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xxvi, 247 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
0804751854 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804751858 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804751862 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804751865 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I712 |
CLC: | I712.06 |
Call Number: | I712.06/C518 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index. Impersonation and double agency : theorizing the practice, practicing the theory -- Dissecting the "Devil Doctor" : stereotype and sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu -- De/posing stereotype on the Asian American stage -- Bodily negotiations : the politics of performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach -- Shamanism and the subject(s) of history in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Impersonation and other disappearing acts : the double(d) agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native speaker. |