The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time
By (Author) Mai Wang
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
9th February 2026
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
How do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time is the first scholarly investigation into the formal and archival links between canonical authors such as Whitman, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville and their twentieth-century Asian American counterparts. It investigates how a transnational group of authors-Carlos Bulosan, Younghill Kang, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Eileen Chang-inherit the American Renaissance as both a racial allegory and a supplier of literary forms such as the romance and the jeremiad.
