Begin here [electronic resource] : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood / Rocío G. Davis.
Material type: TextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.Description: xii, 234 pSubject(s):- Asian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Asians -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Asian American children -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Children -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Children -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Autobiography -- Asian American authors
- Asian Americans in literature
- Children in literature
- Asian Americans -- Social conditions
- Asians -- Canada -- Social conditions
- 305.23092/39507 22
- E184.A75 D38 2007eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-222) and index.
To begin here -- The Asian childhood : writing beginnings -- Cultural revolutions and takeovers : war as structure -- The liminal childhood : biraciality as narrative position -- Citizens or denizens : inscribing the tropes of Asian North Americanization -- In North America : formulating experience -- The childhood for children : the cultural experience of the early reader -- Conclusion : rewriting the childhood.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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