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