This collection examines transnational Asian American women characters in various fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally rooted in Asian regions have been transformed and re-imagined in America, playing significant roles in Asian American literary studies as well as community life. The interdisciplinary essays display refreshing perspectives in Asian American literary studies and transnational feminism from four continents.
This collection examines transnational Asian American women characters in various fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally rooted in Asian regions have been transformed and re-imagined in America, playing significant roles in Asian American literary studies as well as community life. The interdisciplinary essays display refreshing perspectives in Asian American literary studies and transnational feminism from four continents.
Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children's literature, and popular culture.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian America Lan Dong Part I: Myth, History and Beyond Of Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller's Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and Myths Silvia Schultermandl Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Nancy Kang Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung's Lucky Child Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Part II: Battles, Rituals and Worship From Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha's Dictée Karen An-hwei Lee Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/Catalonan Marie-Therese C. Sulit Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational Stage Lan Dong Part III: Multination, Transnation and Communities Re-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine Amy N. Nishimura Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One's Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American Narratives Tina Lynn Powell The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine Imaginary Danicar Mariano Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and Media Lost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese Swordswoman Catherine Gomes Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit Queen J. Sunita Peacock Translating Mother's Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Pei-Ju Wu About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian America Lan Dong Part I: Myth, History and Beyond Of Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller's Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and Myths Silvia Schultermandl Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child Nancy Kang Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung's Lucky Child Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Part II: Battles, Rituals and Worship From Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha's Dictée Karen An-hwei Lee Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/Catalonan Marie-Therese C. Sulit Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational Stage Lan Dong Part III: Multination, Transnation and Communities Re-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine Amy N. Nishimura Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One's Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American Narratives Tina Lynn Powell The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine Imaginary Danicar Mariano Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and Media Lost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese Swordswoman Catherine Gomes Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit Queen J. Sunita Peacock Translating Mother's Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Pei-Ju Wu About the Contributors Index
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