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Filthy Fictions

by Monica Chiu
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Overview

Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings of "Asian Americans" and "dirt". Crossing disciplinary and institutional boundaries, Filthy Fictions also questions the very ground upon which these arguments are founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, Monica Chiu analyzes critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies based on the topics of identity (re)production and transnational representation.

Synopsis

Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about _Asian American_ and _dirt_ through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, the book discusses critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies around the topic of identity (re)production and transnational representation.

About the Author, Monica Chiu

Monica Chiu is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, teaching courses in American literature, Asian American literature, Asian American film, and literature and the body. Her work has appeared in MELUS, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, the Journal of American Studies, and Mosaic.

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 2004
Publisher
AltaMira Press
Pages
210
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780759104556

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