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Presents a new approach to the classics of Asian American literature

Table of Contents

Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies / Zhou Xiaojing

Winnifred Eaton / Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority / Dominika Ferens

The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition / David Shih

Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation , and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America / Floyd Cheung

Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas

Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country / Rajini Srikanth

Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada

Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Ziaojing

Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading Across Traditons in the Poetry of Timonty Liu / Richard Serrano

Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman / Samina Najmi

Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers / Rocio G. Davis

Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen

Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World / Pallavi Rastogi

Notes on Contributors

Index

About the Author

Zhou Xiaojing is associate professor of English, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Samina Najmi is visiting assistant professor of cultural studies at Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts. Other contributors include Tina Y. Chen, Floyd Cheung, Rocío G. Davis, Christopher Douglas, Dominika Ferens, Pallavi Rastogi, Richard Serrano, David Shih, Rajini Srikanth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.

Reviews

"This anthology breaks new ground by offering the first sustained theoretical analysis of the centrality of form in Asian American cultural productions."--Susan Koshy, author of Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation