Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. 1 Between Places: American Literature and Language in the Pacific Rim 1
6. Part I: Defining American Literary Studies in Asia
7. 2 Pedagogies of Resonance: Teaching African American and Asian American Literature and Culture in Asia 13
8. 3 When Asian American Literature Leaves 'Home': On Internationalizing Asian American Literary Studies 29
9. 4 Reading a Foreign Place: Geography and American Literature 41
10. Part II: Teaching Texts, Teaching Contexts that Cross National Boundaries
11. 5 Teaching with Anthologies 53
12. 6 Institutional Imperatives Affecting the Teaching of Asian American Literature Inside and Outside the Pacific Rim 67
13. 7 The Kiowa-Matsue Connection: Inventive Modeling and American Indian Literature Teach Japanese Identity 79
14. 8 The Great White 'Race Adventure': Jack London and the Yellow Peril 89
15. 9 'Stories to Pass On': Pedagogically Dialoging Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison 99
16. 10 Teaching 'Representations of Asians in the American Public Imagination': The Problems of Representation as a Problematic 109
17. 11 Forging Intercultural Feminist Theory in Practice: The Korean Classroom Politics of Feminist Reading on Sula 121
18. Part III: Transnational Readings o f Asian American Literature and Culture
19. 12 Between Memory and History: Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and The Woman Warrior 133
20. 13 'An Identity Switch': A Critique of Multiculturalism in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land 139
21. 14 Under Eastern Eyes: Ghosts and Cultural Haunting in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and China Men 155
22. Notes 165
23. Works Cited 177
24. Index 193