{"product_id":"the-asian-american-renaissance-literary-encounters-across-time-9781399529211","title":"The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time","description":"How do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century American literature? \u003ci\u003eThe Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWang, Mai:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mai Wang is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her critical and creative work has been published in \u003ci\u003eAmerasia Journal, The Hopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHyphen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagazine \u003c\/i\u003eand other venues. She holds a PhD in English from Stanford University. She is currently working on her second book, a critical biography of the Chinese diasporic writer Eileen Chang.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51830492102930,"sku":"9781399529211","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68955ab0-1b72-4ffb-9dbd-13eef62c0015.jpg?v=1767004633","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-asian-american-renaissance-literary-encounters-across-time-9781399529211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}