Coda: ‘‘What We Should Become, What We Were’’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: ‘‘A City of Words’’ 1
5. ONE. Myths of Americanization
6. 1 America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada 27
7. 2 Authoring Subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura 64
8. 3 Womens’ Plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee 90
9. TWO. Constructing Chinese American Ethnicity
10. 4 ‘‘That Was China, That Was Their Fate’’: Ethnicity and Agency in The Joy Luck Club 141
11. 5 Tripmaster Monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese Heroic Tradition 169
12. Coda: ‘‘What We Should Become, What We Were’’ 188
13. Notes 191
14. Bibliography 217
15. Index 229