CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PART I AMBIVALENT IDENTITIES
1. The Ambivalent American: Asian American Literature on the Cusp
2. Versions of Identity in Post-Activist Asian American Poetry
3. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile
4. Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature
5. Witnessing the Japanese Canadian Experience in World War II: Processual Structure, Symbolism, and Irony in Joy Kogawa's Obasan
PART II RACE AND GENDER
6. Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in Chinese Immigrant Literature
7. Rebels and Heroines: Subversive Narratives in the Stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto
8. Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea
9. "Don't Tell": Imposed Silences in The Color Purple and The Woman Warrior
10. Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in China Men
PART III BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
11. Sense of Place, History, and the Concept of the "Local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures
12. Momotaro's Exile: John Okada's No-No Boy
13. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature
14. From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction
15. South Asia Writes North America: Prose Fictions and Autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora
PART IV REPRESENTATIONS AND SELF-REPRESENTATIONS
16. Creating One's Self: The Eaton Sisters
17. The Production of Chinese American Tradition: DisplacingAmerican Orientalist Discourse
18. Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Mankey: His Fake Book as Indigenous Ethnography
19. The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation
20. Ping Chong's Terra In/Cognita: Monsters on Stage
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS