Asian American Renaissance

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Asian American Renaissance is written by Mai Wang and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399529234 (ISBN 10) and 9781399529235 (ISBN 13).

How do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature? The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time is the first scholarly investigation into the formal and archival links between canonical authors such as Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and their twentieth-century Asian American counterparts. It investigates how a transnational group of authors-Carlos Bulosan, Younghill Kang, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eileen Chang-inherit the American Renaissance as both a racial allegory and a supplier of literary forms such as the romance and the jeremiad.