Speaking The Past Child Perspective In The Asian American Bildungsroman

Child perspective is an symbolic narrative strategy that designs multilayered possibilities for meaning in ethnic writing. This book positions Asian American literary studies in the context of American writing about children, presenting them through the lens of their narrators--an often dual child/adult perspective--to examine how narrative point-of-view nuances and shapes issues of personal, ethnic, and national positioning. The texts analyzed in this study demonstrate the flexibility of this narrative technique, and its usefulness as a critical tool through which important thematic issues of family, race, culture, war, assimilation, and language are deployed.Otano, Alicia is the author of 'Speaking The Past Child Perspective In The Asian American Bildungsroman', published 2005 under ISBN 9783825877484 and ISBN 3825877485.