Description: Uncovers the previously neglected links between the nineteenth-century American canon and twentieth-century Asian American writers.
Brief description: Mai Wang is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her critical and creative work has been published in Amerasia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Hyphen Magazine and other venues. She holds a PhD in English from Stanford University. She is currently working on her second book, a critical biography of the Chinese diasporic writer Eileen Chang.
Review Quotes: The Asian American Renaissance offers a fascinating account of how Asian American authors have incorporated the ideas, authors and texts of the 'American Renaissance' to critique liberalism and explore questions of Asian belonging. Required reading for those interested in nineteenth-century American and Asian American literature.--Julia H. Lee, University of California, Irvine