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BL
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958067
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b712437
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| Main Entry
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Davis, Rocío G.
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Begin here : : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood /\ Rocío G. Davis.
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu :: University of Hawai'i Press,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 234 pages)
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| ISBN
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0824861590
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: 1435666410
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: 9780824861599
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: 9781435666412
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082483092X
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9780824830922
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative potential of national experiences. This understanding influences theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative techniques and genre and raising complex questions about self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others.
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Asian American children-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Asian Americans-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans-- Social conditions.
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Asians-- Canada-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Asians-- Canada-- Social conditions.
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Autobiography-- Asian American authors.
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Children in literature.
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Children-- Canada-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Children-- United States-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Asian Canadians-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Asian Canadians-- Social conditions.
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Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
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Américains d'origine asiatique-- Biographies-- Histoire et critique.
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Américains d'origine asiatique-- Conditions sociales.
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Autobiographie-- Écrivains américains d'origine asiatique.
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Canadiens d'origine asiatique-- Biographies-- Histoire et critique.
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Canadiens d'origine asiatique-- Conditions sociales.
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Enfants américains d'origine asiatique-- Biographies-- Histoire et critique.
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Enfants dans la littérature.
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Enfants-- Canada-- Biographies-- Histoire et critique.
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Enfants-- États-Unis-- Biographies-- Histoire et critique.
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Asian Americans in literature
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Asian Americans
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Asian Americans-- Biography
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Asian Americans-- Social conditions
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Asians-- Social conditions
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Asiatischer Einwanderer
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Autobiografie
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Autobiography-- Asian American authors
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Children in literature
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Children
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HISTORY-- United States-- General.
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Kind
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Children's Studies.
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Canada
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United States
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.23092/39507
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| LC Classification
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E184.A75D38 2007eb
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