5. Transgressive Texts and Ambiguous Authors: Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Ambiguous Americans 1
5. 1. From Enemy Alien to Assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the Mixed-Marriage Policy of the Japanese American Incarceration 22
6. 2. Antisentimental Loss: Stories of Transracial/Transnational Asian American Adult Adoptees in the Blogosphere 44
7. 3. Cablinasian Dreams, Amerasian Realities: Transcending Race in the Twenty-First Century and Other Myths Broken by Tiger Woods 71
8. 4. Ambiguous Movements and Mobile Subjectivity: Passing in between Autobiography and Fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki 96
9. 5. Transgressive Texts and Ambiguous Authors: Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Literature 123
10. Coda: Ending with Origins: My Own Racial Ambiguity 148
11. Notes 153
12. Bibliography 189
13. Index 207
14. About the author 217