Chu, Patricia P. <br/><br/>
Where I Have Never Been :  Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (277 pages) 
 - Asian American History and Cultu Series .
 - Asian American History and Cultu Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names and Spelling -- 1. Narratives of Return: A Transpacific Tradition -- 2. "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Josephine Khu's Cultural Curiosity -- 3. Transpacific Echoes in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- 4. "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children -- 5. Working through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl from Purple Mountain -- 6. "A Being . . . from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- 7. "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda -- Notes -- Works Cited and Additional Sources -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781439902271 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature-Asian American authors-History and criticism.<br/>American literature-20th century-History and criticism.<br/>American literature-21st century-History and criticism.<br/>Asian Americans-Ethnic identity.<br/>Memory in literature.<br/>Melancholy in literature.<br/>Homeland in literature.<br/>Return in literature.<br/>Emigration and immigration in literature.<br/>Asian Americans in literature.<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.-bisacsh.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.-bisacsh.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/895073