{"product_id":"modern-minority-asian-american-literature-and-everyday-life-9780199915835","title":"Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life","description":"Since the late nineteenth century, the concept of everyday life has been the subject of increasing scrutiny. The familiar events, routine actions, and ordinary objects that comprise modernity's daily life have been studied by Georg Simmel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and\u003cbr\u003eothers. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eInformed by this theoretical tradition, \u003cem\u003eModern Minority\u003c\/em\u003e argues that Asian American literary realism is defined by a focus on the everyday, which allows Asian Americans to comprehend their minority status and negotiate their historically vexed place in modern American culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoon Sun Lee's study offers new ways to think about an expansive range of literature. Issues of scale, size, and frequency emerge as the key to reading for the everyday. Questions of animation and of surface also become crucial to thinking about everyday forms. In its first section, novels by\u003cbr\u003eYounghill Kang and Carlos Bulosan precede letters and diaries depicting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Despite their differences, these texts rely on repetition and focus on ordinary objects to overcome as well as to express feelings of meaningless and stagnation wrought\u003cbr\u003eby industrialization, racism, and war. \u003cem\u003eModern Minority\u003c\/em\u003e's subsequent section features memoirs by Jade Snow Wong and Maxine Hong Kingston, along with fiction by Joy Kogawa, Nora Okja Keller, Ha Jin, Lan Samantha Chang, and others. These works expose the everyday's shifting role in relation to\u003cbr\u003econcepts such as ethnic history, self-knowledge, and thingness. The final section traces the everyday as it underpins notions of political modernity and at times undermines a sense of Asian American identity in writing by Chang-rae Lee, Frank Chin, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and Jhumpa Lahiri. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarked by attentive close readings and creative juxtapositions, \u003cem\u003eModern Minority\u003c\/em\u003e situates Asian American writing not only in relation to ethnicity or nationhood, but within the context of a modern sense of time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoon Sun Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199915835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYoon Sun Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Wellesley College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eNationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40210688180339,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9c1387ba-2e8a-409a-b37c-b6e6aaed1f52.jpg?v=1656421671","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/modern-minority-asian-american-literature-and-everyday-life-9780199915835","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}