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Racial asymmetries : Asian American fictional worlds
\"Challenging the tidy links among authorial position, narrative perspective, and fictional content, Stephen Hong Sohn argues that Asian American authors have never been limited to writing about Asian American characters or contexts. Racial Asymmetries specifically examines the importance of first person narration in Asian American fiction published in the postrace era, focusing on those cultural productions in which the author's ethnoracial makeup does not directly overlap with that of the storytelling perspective. Through rigorous analysis of novels and short fiction, such as Sesshu Foster's Atomik Aztex, Sabina Murray's A Carnivore's Inquiry and Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind, Sohn reveals how the construction of narrative perspective allows the Asian American writer a flexible aesthetic canvas upon which to engage issues of oppression and inequity, power and subjectivity, and the complicated construction of racial identity. Speaking to concerns running through postcolonial studies and American literature at large, Racial Asymmetries employs an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the unbounded nature of fictional worlds. Stephen Hong Sohn is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the co-editor of Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Or Dickens, whenever we remember what urban poverty meant during Victorian times? [...]why then today do we read again and again about the death of the novel, or that the market for fiction has vanished, vanquished by the memoir, or that the only audience left is YA anyway, and they read and write for screens, not print. [...]of the thousands of stories that are sent our way each year, it is consistently surprising how very few take us beyond the hie et nunc to other places, other times. [...]whether you have new crops to harvest or just the same old leaves to rake, we trust you'll enjoy-and learn from-this cast of characters and their stories.
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Amy Leach's glorious jaunt into hebephrenic menagerie, Sabina Murray's wormhole in Wanderjahren, the resurrected rage of Aimé Césairë, Quim Monzó shooting Swiss legend full of holes, the cool calculations of Mike Freeman, But who are we to play favorites? Nor should it surprise that these authors write in three different languages, represent five different countries, and work in a still greater number of fields (including biochemistry, computer science, graphic arts, history, and human rights). Since 1959, it has been the business of these editors to bring the disciplines together, to offer a speaker's corner, and to write for readers who are interested in simply everything.
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Honorary Englishman
An excerpt from the novel Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray is presented.
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Hero or Traitor? A Linguistic Analysis of the Literary Representation of Roger Casement in Sabina Murray’s \Valiant Gentlemen\
More than one hundred years after his death, the life of the controversial Irish nationalist and British consular official Roger Casement is still of great interest to historians and novelists alike. In this paper I explore the discursive representation of Roger Casement in Sabina Murray’s Valiant Gentlemen (2016). In the light of theories on trauma and memory (Olick, Vinitzky-Seroussi, Levy 2011) I analyse the character’s development in relation to his experiences in the Congo and the Amazon. From a critical linguistic perspective (Fowler 1996) combined with the system of Appraisal within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin, White 2005), I analyse the construction of this character’s identity in the process of his transformation from a loyal British subject to an Irish revolutionary.
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Back at the onset of the millennium's second decade, I argued that another key step toward extrication, and away from delirium, would be a dramatic increase in the amount that the Massachusetts Review publishes in translation. The nightmarish diet in Chin's \"Immigrant Dreams,\" the three episodes from Clingman's memoir about growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, or Murray's vision of the visionary Roger Casement: each a case study in how all true politics is global, even when it acts only locally. [...]let me also mention the closing poem from Lisa Beech Hartz.
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