Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

Presents a new approach to the classics of Asian American literature

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.

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, Rocío G. Davis, Christopher Douglas, Dominika Ferens, Pallavi Rastogi, Richard Serrano, David Shih, Rajini Srikanth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.

"This collection probes the subtle, complex, and interesting ways Asian American authors have at once absorbed and particularly adapted Euroamerican models and traditions, and in so doing created a poetics which evince the production of new cultural forms."—David Palumbo—Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

"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