TELLING TWICE-TOLD TALES ALL OVER AGAIN: LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SUBVERSION IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vi
3. INTRODUCTION: CRITICAL THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES 1
4. WINNIFRED EATON / ONOTO WATANNA: ESTABLISHING ETHNOGRAPHIC AUTHORITY 30
5. THE SEDUCTION OF ORIGINS: SUI SIN FAR AND THE RACE FOR TRADITION 48
6. POLITICAL RESISTANCE, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MANHOOD IN YUNG WING'S MY LIFE IN CHINA AND AMERICA 77
7. READING ETHNOGRAPHY: THE COLD WAR SOCIAL SCIENCE OF JADE SNOW WONG'S FIFTH CHINESE DAUGHTER AND BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION 101
8. ABRAHAM VERGHESE DOCTORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN HIS OWN COUNTRY 125
9. CAMBODIAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: TESTIMONIAL DISCOURSE 144
10. TWO HAT SOFTENERS "IN THE TRADE CONFESSION" JOHN YAU AND KIMIKO HAHN 168
11. BEYOND THE LENGTH OF AN AVERAGE PENIS: READING ACROSS TRADITIONS IN THE POETRY OF TIMOTHY LIU 190
12. DECOLONIZING THE BILDUNGSROMAN: NARRATIVES OF WAR AND WOMANHOOD IN NORA OKJA KELLER'S COMFORT WOMAN 209
13. SHORT STORY CYCLE AND HAWATI BILDUNGSROMAN: WRITING SELF, PLACE, AND FAMILY IN LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA'S WILD MEAT AND THE BULLY BURGERS 231
14. RECASTING THE SPY, REWRITING THE STORY: THE POLITICS OF GENRE IN NATIVE SPEAKER BY CHANG-RAE LEE 249
15. TELLING TWICE-TOLD TALES ALL OVER AGAIN: LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SUBVERSION IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S THE HOLDER OF THE WORLD 268
16. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 285
17. INDEX 289