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 philosophy,...
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| Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p22m4tb |