Abstract
ublished in 1998, The Accidental Asian: Notes of Native Speaker concludes century of Asian autobiography riddled with the anxiety of national belonging.1 Intuiting powerful Orientalism that renders being Asian and conceptually and experientially incompatible, Eric Liu dismisses his biological inheritance as accidental while deliberately affirming his nativity both to the English language and the geopolitical sphere of the United States.2 His poignant reflection on the chance elements of one's being and the transformative processes of one's becoming has led an enthusiastic Henry Louis Gates Jr. to proclaim the book, after Richard Wright's Black Boy, a major contribution to the literature that defines what it means to be an American (dust jacket).
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