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Begin here : reading Asian North American autobiographies of childhood
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- Creator
- Rocío G. Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0824861590, 1435666410, 9780824861599, 082483092X, 9781435666412, 9780824830922
- OCLC
- ocn256467130, ocm70630389, ocn991911549
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Asian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Asians -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Asian American children -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Children -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Children -- Canada -- Biography -- History and criticism.
- Autobiography -- Asian American authors.
- Asian Americans in literature.
- Children in literature.
- Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
- Asians -- Canada -- Social conditions.