Abstract
This essay performs a reading of John Okada's novel No-No Boy that examines the latent homoeroticism between the two main characters, one a disabled veteran and the other a draft resister. It shows how male-male desire may heal ruptures among Japanese American men in the wake of World War II. In doing so, this essay urges a rethinking of the terms on which Okada's novel was embraced by Asian American literary cultural nationalism in the 1970s.
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