"Extravagant" Texts: Advanced Studies in Asian American Literatures

Examines Asian American writings that are difficult, complex, and/or experimental-that are, in Kingston's phrase, "extravagant." Explores the issue of what is at stake-politically and aesthetically-in writing that explicitly challenges the generic conventions with which much Asian American literature is linked: autobiography, the Bildungsroman, ethnography, realism, and sentimentalism.