Beyond K's Specter: Chang-rae Lee’s <em>A Gesture Life</em>, Comfort Women Testimonies, and Asian American Transnational Aesthetics

<p>This essay argues that Chang-rae Lee’s novel A Gesture Life exemplifies both the conceptual gains and the potential pitfalls of current Asian American literature’s transnationalism. The first section of the essay discusses the interlocking of psychoanalytic theory and political phil...

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Main Author: Belinda Kong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2011-03-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
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Online Access:https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/7013