Ebook219 pages4 hours
Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature
By Elda E Tsou
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
Until quite recently, Asian American literary criticism had little to do with form. Instead, the tendency was to bind the literary tradition to identity formation. For Elda Tsou, however, the distinctions of ethnic writing extend beyond such facile referential practices to incorporate form and aesthetics.
In Unquiet Tropes, Tsou reconceptualizes the literature as a set of highly particular classical rhetorical tropes including antanaclasis, rhetorical question, apophasis, catachresis, and allegory. Looking at five canonical works—Aiiieeeee!, No-No Boy, China Men, Blu’s Hanging, and Native Speaker—Tsou shows how these texts use figurative means to confront the problem of race. She also explores how traces of Asian American history live on through these figures.
Each case study in Unquiet Tropes considers a different scenario—defiance, coercion, necessity, error, and deceit—to show how literary representation from the 1950s through 1997 has responded to a specific political condition.
In Unquiet Tropes, Tsou reconceptualizes the literature as a set of highly particular classical rhetorical tropes including antanaclasis, rhetorical question, apophasis, catachresis, and allegory. Looking at five canonical works—Aiiieeeee!, No-No Boy, China Men, Blu’s Hanging, and Native Speaker—Tsou shows how these texts use figurative means to confront the problem of race. She also explores how traces of Asian American history live on through these figures.
Each case study in Unquiet Tropes considers a different scenario—defiance, coercion, necessity, error, and deceit—to show how literary representation from the 1950s through 1997 has responded to a specific political condition.
Related to Unquiet Tropes
Related ebooks
Historicizing the Uses of the Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness and Didactics of History Related to World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJack & Mollie (& Her) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of David Roberts's Alone on the Ice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIsland of Bewilderment: A Novel of Modern Iran Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Nordic Historiography: Connections, Tensions and Methodology, 1850-1970 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolymorphous Domesticities: Pets, Bodies, and Desire in Four Modern Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLike to the Lark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHerostories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsbecause God loves the wasp Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIdeology and Change: The Transformation of the Caribbean Left Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrawn Janet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoetry Book Society Spring 2019 Bulletin Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStories Set Forth with Fair Words: The Evolution of Medieval Romance in Iceland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMasks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMotherhood In Precarious Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHonestly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBu San Bu Si: A Taiwan Punk Tale Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFunkhaus Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeiresses of Russ 2012: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The People of the Abyss Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJim Crace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiss Kopp's Midnight Confessions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLovely Asunder: Poems Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ultimatum Orangutan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Small Events: A Collection of Haibun Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of Emma Courtney Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
A Reader’s Companion to J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As I Lay Dying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killers of the Flower Moon: by David Grann | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lincoln Lawyer: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetween the World and Me: by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Great Alone: by Kristin Hannah | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Novel by Sarah J. Maas | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for Unquiet Tropes
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Unquiet Tropes - Elda E Tsou
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1