“[S]howing Gatsby that there was more to life than just him”: Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful and the Ethnic Afterlife of Jordan Baker

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: “One Shock of Recognition” 1
4. Fabulations of the Exception: Law, Justice, and Violence in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House 9
5. Representations of the Massie/Kahahawai Case: Recognizing Racial and Gendered Conflicts in Honolulu 27
6. What’s in “the heart of every Native citizen”? Definitions of Americanness in the John-Donkey 45
7. The Song of Hiawatha: From an Indian Tale to the Epos of Manifest Destiny 67
8. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Reimagining of (Captain) America 81
9. Negotiating Paradigms in Transbellum American Culture: Walt Whitman, James Jackson Jarves, and the Old Masters 101
10. Synesthesia, Photography, Intransitive Comparison: Worlding the World as Home in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt 117
11. Intercultural Encounters, Translations, and Understanding as Smooth? Michael Cooperson’s Impostures as a Translation Quandary 135
12. Muslim Gatsby(s) in the Shadow of the Towers: Trans-codifications of The Great Gatsby in Twenty-first Century Pakistani-American Fiction 151
13. “[S]howing Gatsby that there was more to life than just him”: Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful and the Ethnic Afterlife of Jordan Baker 173
14. White Ethnics and U.S. Urban Neighborhoods in the 1970s: The Spatial Justice Mission of Geno Baroni 189
15. “Shut your mouth! Leave your worries outside, Mistress Elektra will take good care of you”: Interracial BDSM, Ultra Fetishes and the Hauntology of Black Transness 203
16. Conjure Feminism: The Root(work) of Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition 223
17. Note on Contributors 253
18. Index 257