Title Betrayal and other acts of subversion : feminism, sexual politics, Asian American women's literature / Leslie Bow.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Theorizing Gendered Constructions of Ethnic and National Collectivity -- To Enjoy Being a Girl: Sexuality and Partial Citizenship -- The Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?: Incorporating Racial Difference Through Feminist Narrative -- Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization: Le Ly Hayslip's Bad (Girl) Karma and the Art of Neutrality -- The Gendered Subject of Human Rights: Domestic Infidelity in Irrawaddy Tango and The Scent of the Gods -- Afterword: Multiplying Loyalties.
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Summary	Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and pol.
Subject	American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Asian American women -- Intellectual life.
	Feminism and literature -- United States.
	Women and literature -- United States.
	Asian American women in literature.
	Asian Americans in literature.
	Sex role in literature.
	Literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
	American literature -- Asian American authors. (OCoLC)fst00807125
	American literature -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00807271
	Asian American women in literature. (OCoLC)fst00818618
	Asian American women -- Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00818612
	Asian Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00818675
	Feminism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00922735
	Sex role in literature. (OCoLC)fst01114649
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Frauenliteratur. (DE-588)4113622-6
	Ethnische Identität. (DE-588)4153096-2
	Asiatin. (DE-588)4369399-4
	Sexualität. (DE-588)4054684-6
	Politik. (DE-588)4046514-7
	Frauenliteratur.
	Ethnische Identität.
	Asiatin.
	Geschichte 1960-2000.
	Sexualität.
	Politik.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Bow, Leslie, 1962- Betrayal and other acts of subversion. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 069107092X (DLC) 00058488 (OCoLC)44592609
ISBN	9781400824144 (electronic bk.)
	1400824141 (electronic bk.)
	1400814030 (electronic bk.)
	9781400814039 (electronic bk.)

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