Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 1 @toc1:Part I. Sexual Orients and the American National Imaginary @toc3:Chapter 1. Mimic Modernity: "Madame Butterfly" and the Erotics of Informal Empire 000 Chapter 2. Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood 000 @toc1:Part II. Engendering the Hybrid Nation @toc3:Chapter 3. Unincorporated Territories of Desire: Hypercorporeality and Miscegenation in Carlos Bulosan's Writings 000 @toc:Chapter 4. Sex Acts as Assimilation Acts: Female Power and Passing in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American
Studies at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
"This volume makes an important contribution to American studies and race theory, revealing Asian American identity as a key site for understanding the complex significations that determine racial genealogies and sexual boundaries." - Choice "Susan Koshy's Sexual Naturalization is a remarkable contribution to miscegenation discourse, illuminating the repressed role of Asian Americans and miscegenation in the construction of race, gender, and nation...This is a rich, groundbreaking study." - American Literature
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