{"product_id":"unquiet-tropes-9781439911242","title":"Unquiet Tropes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eUntil quite recently, Asian American literary criticism had little to do with form. Instead, the tendency was to bind the literary tradition to identity formation. For Elda Tsou, however, the distinctions of ethnic writing extend beyond such facile referential practices to incorporate form and aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eUnquiet Tropes, \u003c\/i\u003eTsou reconceptualizes the literature as a set of highly particular classical rhetorical tropes including antanaclasis, rhetorical question, apophasis, catachresis, and allegory. Looking at five canonical works\u003ci\u003eAiiieeeee!\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo-No Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChina Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlu's Hanging\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker\u003c\/i\u003eTsou shows how these texts use figurative means to confront the problem of race. She also explores how traces of Asian American history live on through these figures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Each case study in \u003ci\u003eUnquiet Tropes\u003c\/i\u003e considers a different scenariodefiance, coercion, necessity, error, and deceitto show how literary representation from the 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aiiieeeee! and the Phantom Trope 1 Rhetorical Question: No-No Boy and Coercion 2 Apophasis: China Men and Necessity 3 Catachresis: Blu’s Hanging and Error  4 Allegory: Native Speaker and Deceit  Conclusion Notes Bibliography  Index \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408309395799,"sku":"9781439911242","price":60.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439911242.jpg?v=1730502385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unquiet-tropes-9781439911242","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}