Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965: Volume 2

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This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with globally-dispersed decolonization movements. Each chapter, written a by leading figures in their fields, demonstrates how Asian American writing affectingly reveals our complex world and its contested pasts. Case studies of major authors of this era show this as a time when the figure of the Asian American author became newly significant. This volume provides historical grounding, theoretical interventions, and nuanced textual analysis of Asian American literature in this period.

Victor Bascara is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, where he has served as Chair of the Asian American Studies Department. He is a scholar and teacher of US ethnic and postcolonial studies, focusing on the critical study of US Empire. He is the author of Model Minority Imperialism (2006), on the editorial board of Amerasia Journal, and a co-editor of the Critical Refugee Studies book series at the University of California Press. Josephine Nock-Hee Park is Professor of English and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at The University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (2008), which garnered the Literary Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian America (2016). She presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Asian American Studies and Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

'This ambitious series covers more than a century of Asian American literature in four volumes organized by years: 1850-1930, 1930-65, 1965-96, and 1996-2020. Each volume is ordered thematically within those time frames ... The breadth of the literary forms discussed and the comprehensive time period, particularly the analysis of works from the 19th century, make this work a required resource for understanding Asian American literary history ... Essential.' M. Oh, Choice Connect