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  • Chapter 4 - 1.5 Generation Literature as Asian Americanist Critique

  • from Part I - Immigration, Migration, and Movement
  • Edited by Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, University of Texas, Austin
  • Book:
    Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996
    Published online:
    08 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 June 2021, pp 64-78

  • Summary

    This chapter examines 1.5 generation Asian American literature, considering its thematic, formal, and critical value within Asian American studies more broadly. The 1.5 generation typically refers to subjects who are able to mediate between generations, languages, and cultures because their migration to another country at a young age results in transnational and intercultural knowledges and skills. This model for comprehending the 1.5er can be complemented with analyses of literature that is written by and/or conceptualizes the notion of the 1.5 generation. From this perspective, 1.5 generation Asian American literature is not necessarily defined by a fixed set of themes and forms but, rather, draws attention to shifting US–Asian relations and their impact on Asian American lives. Focusing on Vietnamese American anthologies published in the 1990s, this chapter demonstrates how the increased visibility of Vietnamese American literature largely centers around the notion of the 1.5 generation as a critical posture. Foregrounding neglected Southeast Asian contexts, these anthologies posit 1.5 generation literature’s critical importance in rethinking Asian American studies paradigms.

  • 26 - The Forgotten War in Korea

  • from Part V - Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
  • Edited by Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Min Hyoung Song, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    01 December 2015, pp 454-468

  • Summary

    Examining Asian American literature from 1968 until the present, what readers encounter is a body of literature and ways of thinking about that literature that have grown rapidly in content, complexity, and contradiction. Within an academic context, the Asian American literary criticism pioneered by Elaine Kim was disruptive in terms of introducing an entirely new body of writers and texts to consider. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field, in the end, cannot be separated from the emergence of Asian Americans as a partially excluded and partially included minority in all strata of American life, including literature and the academy. In the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, Asian Americans were mostly excluded from American life and culture, and this exclusion eventually led to a relatively unified and coherent definition of Asian American literature.