• ISBN13: 9781138638457
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2016
• Pages: 538
• Original Price: GBP 49.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 930 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): American / Asian American & Pacific Islander

The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature offers a general introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this important and expanding field. Divided into three sections, the volume:

• Introduces "keywords" connecting the theories, themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature
• Addresses historical periods, geographies and literary identities
• Looks at different genre, form and interdisciplinarity

With 41 essays from scholars in the field this collection is a comprehensive guide to a significant area of literary study for students and teachers of Ethnic American, Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander Literature.

Contributors: Christine Bacareza Balance, Victor Bascara, Leslie Bow, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, Tina Chen, Anne Anlin Cheng, Mark Chiang, Patricia P. Chu, Robert Diaz, Pin-chia Feng, Tara Fickle, Donald Goellnicht, Helena Grice, Eric Hayot, Tamara C. Ho, Hsuan L. Hsu, Mark C. Jerng, Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Daniel Y. Kim, Jodi Kim, James Kyung-Jin Lee, Rachel C. Lee, Jinqi Ling, Colleen Lye, Sean Metzger, Susette Min, Susan Y. Najita, Viet Thanh Nguyen, erin Khuê Ninh, Eve Oishi, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Steven Salaita, Shu-mei Shi, Rajini Srikanth, Brian Kim Stefans, Erin Suzuki, Theresa Tensuan, Cynthia Tolentino, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Eleanor Ty, Traise Yamamoto, Timothy Yu.

Rachel C. Lee is Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA, USA. Her research focuses on Asian American literature and performance, theories of gender and sexuality, and science and technology studies. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (2014), The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (1999), and lead editor of the volume Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace (2003).