Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7391-2278-5 • Hardback • June 2008 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
Seung Ah Oh is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Humanities at Yonsei University.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. Beyond the Trope of Madame Butterfly: John Luther Long and the Eaton Sisters
Chapter 3 2. Brought to You by War: Tea, Comfort Woman, and Monkey Bridge
Chapter 4 3. Domestic/Immigrant Family Romance: Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jasmine, and The Love Wife
Chapter 5 4. Homequest: My Year of Meats and Blu's Hanging
Chapter 6 Coda
Oh's work is, of course, a wonderful addition to the continually growing terrain of gender critiques in Asian American literary studies....Oh is a gifted critical writer, with a clear and succint prose, making Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity the perfect companion text to any course on Asian American Literature and the politics of gender. One could easily see that her primary texts could all appear as those assigned for a course.
— Stephen Sohn, Asian American Literature Fans
The strength of Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity is its refreshing selection of primary texts, many of which are still emerging as important representational sites for deploying Asian American critique. The readings are useful and instructive in situating the continually shifting terrain of Asian American women's writings. Oh's work is a wonderful addition to the continually growing terrain of gender critiques in Asian American literary study. Oh is a gifted critical writer, with clear and succint prose, making Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity the perfect companion to any course on Asian American literature and the politics of gender.
— http://community.livejournal.com/asianamlitfans; Asian American Literature Fans
A solid addition to scholarship on Asian American literature, Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity asks us to consider domesticity in both its literal and symbolic manifestations. Accessible for undergraduates, the book productively situates the importance of white womanhood to Asian American gender formation.
— Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin, Madison