Where I Have Never Been Image close
Where I Have Never Been by Patricia P. Chu
Where I Have Never Been by Patricia P. Chu
Show Hide Adult Content
Where I Have Never Been close

Literature & literary studies:

Home  
Books  
Literature & literary studies  
Literature: history & criticism

Where I Have Never Been

Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return
Click to share your rating 0 ratings (0.0/5.0 average) Thanks for your vote!

By:

Format:

Paperback / softback
$107.00
Available from supplier

The item is brand new and in-stock with one of our preferred suppliers. The item will ship from a Mighty Ape warehouse within the timeframe shown.

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
0 in Trolley
Free Delivery with Primate
Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $26.75 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $17.83 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

  • Around 4-14 June using International Courier

Explore more Asian American History & Cultu

See all products in this series

Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire by Cynthia Wu
$88.00
Sticky Rice: A Politics of Intraracial Desire
by Cynthia Wu ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Intimate Strangers on Hardback by Tritia Toyota
$261.00
Intimate Strangers
by Tritia Toyota ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Creating a Buddhist Community on Hardback by Jiemin Bao
$197.00
Creating a Buddhist Community
by Jiemin Bao ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 2-3 weeks
From Confinement to Containment by Edward Tang
$109.00
From Confinement to Containment
by Edward Tang ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Asian American Avant-Garde by Audrey Wu Clark
$84.00
The Asian American Avant-Garde
by Audrey Wu Clark ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Model Machines by Long T Bui
$101.00
Model Machines
by Long T Bui ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Water Thicker Than Blood by George Uba
$88.00
Water Thicker Than Blood
by George Uba ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Subject(s) of Human Rights
$107.00
The Subject(s) of Human Rights
Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Refugee Lifeworlds on Hardback by Y-Dang Troeung
$236.00
Refugee Lifeworlds
by Y-Dang Troeung ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Japanese American Millennials
$107.00
Japanese American Millennials
Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Model Machines on Hardback by Long T Bui
$261.00
Model Machines
by Long T Bui ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law on Hardback by Masumi Izumi
$168.00
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law
by Masumi Izumi ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Water Thicker Than Blood on Hardback by George Uba
$261.00
Water Thicker Than Blood
by George Uba ~ Hardback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law by Masumi Izumi
$86.00
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law
by Masumi Izumi ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
Anna May Wong by Shirley Jennifer Lim
$90.00
Anna May Wong
by Shirley Jennifer Lim ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks
America's Vietnam by Marguerite Nguyen
$95.00
America's Vietnam
by Marguerite Nguyen ~ Paperback / softback
Available - Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

Description

In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related melancholia, contests official histories, and portrays Asian American families as flexible and transpacific.  Where I Have Never Been explores the tropes of return, tracing both literal return visits by Asian emigrants and symbolic “returns”: first visits by diasporic offspring. Chu argues that these Asian American narratives seek to remedy widely held anxieties about cultural loss and the erasure of personal and family histories from public memory. In fiction, memoirs, and personal essays, the writers of return narratives—including novelists Lisa See, May-lee Chai, Lydia Minatoya, and Ruth Ozeki, and best-selling author Denise Chong, diplomat Yung Wing, scholar Winberg Chai, essayist Josephine Khu, and many others—register and respond to personal and family losses through acts of remembrance and countermemory. 

Author Biography:

Patricia P. Chu is an Associate Professor of English at George Washington University and the author of Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America.
Release date NZ
January 4th, 2019
Pages
286
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
ISBN-13
9781439902264
Product ID
27958936

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here

Recommended for you

Recommended from your browsing history

Help & options

Filed under...

Books >
Literature & literary studies >
Literature: history & criticism
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Humanities >
History >
History of specific subjects >
Social history
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Social Sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies
Books >
Non-Fiction >
Social Sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Ethnic studies >
Black studies