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Chapter 8 - No Home Away from Home

Queer Asian North American Heritage Plots

from Part II - Intersections, Intimacies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2021

By
Stephen Hong Sohn
Edited by
Betsy Huang  and
Victor Román Mendoza
Betsy Huang
Affiliation:
Clark University, Massachusetts
Victor Román Mendoza
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Summary

This chapter explores what is called a queer racial formalism. The narrative construct analyzed here involves intergenerational family sagas, a queer Asian North American character, and a heritage plot. This chapter investigates three variations of this narrative construct by engaging in short readings of Norman Wong’s Cultural Revolution (1994), Brian Leung’s Lost Men (2007), and Rahul Mehta’s No Other World (2017).

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queerAmericanAsianfictionintergenerationalheritageplotplottingnarratology
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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020 , pp. 150 - 170
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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