Zhou Xiaojing is associate professor of English, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Samina Najmi is visiting assistant professor of cultural studies at Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts. Other contributors include Tina Y. Chen, Floyd Cheung, Rocío G. Davis, Christopher Douglas, Dominika Ferens, Pallavi Rastogi, Richard Serrano, David Shih, Rajini Srikanth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.
Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American
Literary Studies / Zhou Xiaojing
Winnifred Eaton / Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority /
Dominika Ferens
The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition / David
Shih
Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation , and the Performance of
Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America / Floyd Cheung
Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth
Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas
Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country / Rajini Srikanth
Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse / Teri Shaffer
Yamada
Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn /
Zhou Ziaojing
Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading Across Traditons in the
Poetry of Timonty Liu / Richard Serrano
Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora
Okja Keller's Comfort Woman / Samina Najmi
Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and
Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers / Rocio G.
Davis
Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native
Speaker by Chang-rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen
Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion
in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World / Pallavi Rastogi
Notes on Contributors
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