Reading the Literatures of Asian America.

Abstract

Acknowledgments Foreword Elaine H. Kim Introduction Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling Part I: Ambivalent Identities 1. The Ambivalent American: Asian American Literature on the Cusp Shirley Geok-lin Lim 2. Versions of Identity in Post-Activist Asian American Poetry George Uba 3. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile Oscar V. Campomanes 4. Beyond Clay Walls: Korean American Literature Chung-Hei Yun 5. Witnessing the Japanese Canadian Experience in World War II: Processual Structure, Symbolism, and Irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan Cheng Lok Chua Part II: Race and Gender 6. Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in Chinese Immigrant Literature Sau-ling Cynthia Wong 7. Rebels and Heroines: Subversive Narratives in the Stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto Stan Yogi 8. Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea Ruth Y. Hsiao 9. Don't Tell: Imposed Silences in The Color Purple and the Woman Warrior King-Kok Cheung 10. Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men Donald C. Goellnicht Part III: Borders and Boundaries 11. Sense of Place, History, and the Concept of the Local in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures Stephen H. Sumida 12. Momotaro's Exile: John Okada's No-No Boy Gayle K. Fujita Sato 13. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature Renny Christopher 14. From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction Qui-Phiet Tran 15. South Asia Writes North America: Prose Fictions and Autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora Craig Tapping Part IV: Representations and Self-Representations 16. Creating One's Self: The Eaton Sisters Amy Ling 17. The Production of Chinese American Tradition: Displacing American Orientalist Discourse David Leiwei Li 18. Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography Patricia Lin 19. The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation James S. Moy 20. Ping Chong's Terra In/Cognita: Monsters on Stage Suzanne R. Westfall Notes on Contributors