This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.
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"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
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Presents a new approach to the classics of Asian American literature
| Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies |
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Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority |
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The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition |
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Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America |
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Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education |
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Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country |
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Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse |
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Two Hat Softeners ``in the Trade Confession'': John Yau and Kimiko Hahn |
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Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading across Traditions in the Poetry of Timothy Liu |
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Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman |
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Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers |
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Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee |
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Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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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, Rocķo G. Davis, Christopher Douglas, Dominika Ferens, Pallavi Rastogi, Richard Serrano, David Shih, Rajini Srikanth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.
