Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang

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Review Article| March 01 2020 Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature, by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pages.Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism, by Tang, Amy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 240 pages. Elda Tsou Elda Tsou Elda Tsou is associate professor in the Department of English at St. John’s University. Her first book, Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature, reconceived Asian American literature as a set of classical rhetorical tropes figuring specific historical problematics. Her next book argues that the special affinity defining the relationship of the Asian American subject to whiteness articulates an alternate model of racialization that she calls a “politics of proximity.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-8196751 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elda Tsou; Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang. Twentieth-Century Literature 1 March 2020; 66 (1): 147–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-8196751 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsTwentieth-Century Literature Search Advanced Search The new formalism may no longer be so new, but its call to reinvigorate the study of form continues to be heard, as two recent books on Asian American literature can attest. While it is true that Asian American studies has traditionally favored historical or sociopolitical approaches to literature, the formal turn of the last decade or so has produced a growing body of scholarship to which we can now add Josephine Park’s Cold War Friendships and Amy Tang’s Repetition and Race.1 The new formalism has unevenly pursued questions of race and racial formation as compared, for instance, to its scrutiny of gender, sexuality, or class. Park and Tang make significant contributions to that scholarship by dint of their subject matter alone, but more than this, they sketch out something like a distinct Asian American epistemology—an inquiry into how Asian American literature might... © 2019 Hofstra University2019 You do not currently have access to this content.