Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Asian American Literature—a new 4-volume set edited by David Li

Asian American Literature (4-volume set),
edited by David Leiwei Li
Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse
(May 2012)
2,240 pages

Publisher’s Synopsis

“… As research on and around Asian-American literature continues to flourish, this new title from Routledge answers the urgent need for an authoritative reference work to map its vast critical terrain. The collection will enable users to make sense of the rapidly growing, and ever more complex, corpus of scholarly literature which explores—among many others—dizzying questions about racial diversity and identity, cultural history, and literary value….”

David Leiwei Li is Collins Professor of the Humanities, UO Department of English, and a CSWS faculty affiliate.