Jinqi Ling: Asian American Literature (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism) [2022] paperback Condition:New Set against a backdrop of

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Jinqi Ling: Asian American Literature (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism) [2022] paperback Condition:New Set against a backdrop ofThis book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide recognizable contours and trajectories for the evolution of Asian American criticism as an ethnic specific minoritarian formation in the United States; second is an imperative to historicize its